Colombian artist Miler Lagos
has been exhibiting since 2002, creating original works like this
igloo-resembling installation made of volumes salvaged from the library
of a US Navy base. Encompassing knowledge and mind adventure while the
body remains under a comfortable, predator-free structure, this
installation entitled “Home” was constructed at the MagnanMetz Gallery
last year. The artist imagined a 9 foot igloo made of books that would
rise without being forced to remain together by any kind of glue, but
naturally relying on each other to shape the desired structure. Pages
face outwards to shape a color-white-color dynamic, while the spines
showing titles of the salvaged books face inward. Missing almost half of
the structure, the dome-like book stack substitutes bricks for books,
showing a work in progress captured in a moment of time. This compact
display found on This is Colossal inspires the thirst for knowledge and the self-made chance to apply that found knowledge.
/http://freshome.com/2012/05/03/book-igloo-held-together-by-natural-forces-and-knowledge/
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