{"id":4759,"date":"2011-07-13T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T09:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/?p=4759"},"modified":"2011-07-13T13:56:14","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T12:56:14","slug":"book-sculpture-portraits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/book-sculpture-portraits\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Sculpture Portraits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Knowing my penchant for unusual pieces created from books and paper, Giles turned me on to the extraordinary work of artist <a href=\"http:\/\/galan.in\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nicholas Galanin<\/a>, who hand-carves 3D portraits from lengthy volumes, as if they were inverted sculpture blocks. The source models for these surreal, paper death masks were first captured with a 3D scanner to produce an exact digital rendition of the subject, then cut out and bound at the back &#8211; a sculpture you can actually leaf through.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the picture below to view the Flickr gallery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/galanin\/sets\/72157594357065714\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4760\" title=\"bookportrait\" src=\"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/bookportrait.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/bookportrait.jpg 500w, https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/bookportrait-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knowing my penchant for unusual pieces created from books and paper, Giles turned me on to the extraordinary work of artist Nicholas Galanin, who hand-carves 3D portraits from lengthy volumes, as if they were inverted sculpture blocks. The source models for these surreal, paper death masks were first captured with a 3D scanner to produce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[42,43,337,132,47],"class_list":["post-4759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","tag-book","tag-cut-out","tag-inspiration","tag-paper-sculpture","tag-pop-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4759"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4765,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4759\/revisions\/4765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}