This piece is a a poetic mode documentation which relates the decreasing value of physical books and the increasing value of electronic books. The process of reading a book physically is becoming less common as people switch to reading on electronic devices. My piece represents the switch to an electronic book society.
Some elements of the poetic mode, which we discussed in class and which are part of this piece include the use of deliberate artistic intentions, abstract meanings, and themes. The has deliberate artistic intentions with the overall composition. The bookcase is on the left side which flows into the growing mass of ripped paper which then flows into the CDs. This flow from left to right is deliberately done to demonstrate the passage of time. The piece is like a timeline.
The piece has abstract meaning and themes in the symbolic meanings which the images have in representing the decreasing value of physical books and the increasing value of electronic books. The symbolism and themes are shown mostly through the materials I deliberately used to make the piece. My piece is created on a bookshelf from a bookcase which broke. I used an old broken and slightly beat up bookshelf as my canvas to represent that the need for a bookshelf to hold books is dying out because people are less likely to buy a physical copy of a book. I then carved into the bookshelf a bookcase falling apart to represent the dying need for the bookcases.
From the books falling off the bookcase comes a collage of torn pages from books. These torn pages represent how books are not valued like they used to be. The pages are from 3 books which a friend of mine was going to just throw away because he didn’t want them anymore. One of the books also included a digital copy of the book. I have pasted this digital copy over the torn pages the CDs which contain the digital copy of the book to represent the switch to electronic books. The CDs are placed over the paper to represent its dominance over physical books.
Overall, this piece is an abstract timeline of societies opinion on books.
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