A worthy sacrifice

The always-awesome site ThisIsColossal recently featured two book-related art projects: one about books and magazines being transformed into crystallized sculptures by San Francisco-based artist Alexis Arnold, and one about South African artist Barbara Wildenboer's book-based sculptures of nervous systems. I usually complain about seeing books used as found-art materials, so I want to give full props to Arnold's choice to use possibly the only kind of books I will happily sacrifice: out-of-date computer manuals and telephone books.