Mike Stilkey Paints on Books

19 Mar

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Much like artist Ekaterina Panikanova, whose work Gliterature has covered before, Mike Stilkey makes sculptures and installations from salvaged books that he paints to depict humans and animals to startling result.

stinley His medium of choice is discarded library books, so you needn’t weep over the fate of these tomes. They wouldn’t have been read anyway, and now they can bring whimsy and intrigue to the world in a different form.

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