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Alex Queral does these wonderful heads, carved out of phone books (then painted with
acrylics). In his Artist’s Statement, he says:
I carve the faces out of phone books because I like the three-dimensional quality that results and because of the unexpected results that occur working in this medium. The three-dimensional quality enhances the feeling of the pieces as an object as opposed to a picture.
In carving and painting a head from a phone directory, I’m celebrating the individual lost in the anonymous list of thousands of names that describe the size of the community. In addition, I like the idea of creating something that is normally discarded every year into an object of longevity.
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What a wonderful technique; he captures the subjects so well and it’s amazing that these are done out of phone books! Finally, a use for those behemoths in the digital age.