Book art by Emma Taylor. You can buy photographic prints of her work on Etsy and you can follow her blog on Tumblr.

Book sculptures by Gareth Spor

Spor on his work:

Often fixating on the physics of light, the cosmos, and the geometries of space and time, I work across a diverse range of media to explore the states of wonderment achieved when people contemplate things larger than themselves. My work is a means to feed my own curiosity and to share some of the wonderment I feel with others.

In her series Body parts, live breath art, paper artist and photographer Bronia Sawyer shapes books into the form of body parts to illustrate how fundamental art is to her life. 

Sawyer on her work:

[After suffering from depression] Slowly I started to create again. As I started to do more art I slowly started to feel like me again and that was when I knew things were getting better I started to be me again. I used art a lot as therapy, I think I always have. I feel art is in my bones it runs through my veins, so this collection is born through that feeling. Art being part of me.

I adore these pieces from Beautiful Evidence, an exhibition by Thomas Allen inspired by his 8-year old daughter’s scientific wonder. It will be appearing at the Foley Gallery in NYC from September 9 - October 12. 

Jennifer Judd-McGee does these cute drawings on the pages of vintage botany books and sells them in her Swallowfield Etsy store.

Cara Barer’s book art makes me want to throw my next phonebook into the bathtub instead of the recycling bin. Water and other methods of transformation have saved many manuals and reference books from the trash and turned them into these lovely treasures.

Barer on her work:

My photographs are primarily a documentation of a physical evolution. I have changed a common object into sculpture in a state of flux. The way we choose to research and find information is also in an evolution. I hope to raise questions about these changes, the ephemeral and fragile nature in which we now obtain knowledge, and the future of books.

Book artist and photographer Sonia Sawyer makes books blossom.

Paula Swisher has taken doodling in the margins of textbooks to a whole new level.

Beautiful book art made from encyclopedias by Alexander Korzer-Robinson.

Robinson on his art:

Through my work in the tradition of collage I am pursuing the very personal obsession of creating narrative scenarios in small format. Using antiquarian books, makes the work at the same time an exploration and a deconstruction of nostalgia.

We create our own past from fragments of reality in a process that combines the willful aspects of remembering and forgetting with the coincidental and unconscious.

On a general level, I aim to illustrate this process that forms our inner landscape.