Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Return books in nature

For the sake of release of books every year destroyed thousands of trees. While the books themselves are often not needed and year after year they congregate in a personal library or in the warehouses book stores. Here these old, useless publications and decided to return back to the forest canadian artists Latourelle Rodney (Rodney LaTourelle) and Thilo Folkerts (Thilo Folkerts).





It is several centuries ago, each book was worth its weight of gold, even read hundreds if not thousands of people. Now available a huge number of printed products, which is read by one person or even delayed on the shelf until better times and never opened. Was it worth to do this to cut down forests?





On this issue thinking artists from Quebec, Canada Rodney Latourelle and Tilo Folkerts, deciding to return to the forest that he had selected. They took a few hundred old books and created with their help is very, very unusual art installation.





The essence of this installation is to install in the middle of the forest, the Jardin de la Connaissance near Quebec city several walls created from old books. The work of artists have over — stepped in nature.





For clarity, they showed pictures of what happened to the books abandoned in the woods two years ago. They have formed mosses, lichens began to grow mushrooms. In a few years, through the paper will begin to grow shoots of trees — nature will begin to absorb the fact that she at one time took away.

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