Remember having to make a diorama from a shoebox in elementary school? Constructing a landscape scene in a box is a childhood rite of passage. Instead of a shoebox, UK-based artist Kyle Kirkpatrick has chosen to use discarded books as the building block for his dioramas. In his hands, books become transformed into exquisite landscapes complete with miniature figurines.
Kirkpatrick says, “My practice is primarily concerned with the notion of the imagined landscape. I present man-made objects and natural materials simultaneously to form carefully and meticulously composed installation works. I capitalize on intrigue taking objects out of context reinventing their use, pushing the viewer to see beyond what I present before them, a glass could be interpreted as a lake or a metal bracket a cliff.“
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