There Are Spiders In The Jungle Book, Altered Book Carving art nouveau I always find old medical

I always find old medical books fascinating and sometime outrageous at the out of date information and terms

hand painted with the words  Be More Punk

they have been cleaned before customisation

so here at the Mines we decided to give it a new life as a book carving

At the back of the book behind the trees is a water colour paint sky

There Are Spiders In The Jungle Book, Altered Book Carving art nouveau I always find old medicalThere are spiders in The Jungle Book, Book Carving by Echo Mines Studio. When this book came to the studio it has quite literally fallen apart, the stitching had come away and the fabric cover was coming away. It gave me the feeling of being in a shed full of cobwebs and eaten by snails. The book has been cleaned and given lots of TLC to save it from the bin. I have a book of spiders that I have wanted to use for a while and this idea came into being,