Novels, tales, biographies.
A way to escape from reality, that now, with the newly available technologies has ceased to be the only one.
Alexis Arnold, a Los Angeles based artist, conscious about the decline that books have in our daily lives has created the ‘Crystallized Books’ project, where treaties on technology and contemporary consumerism are transformed, thanks to the borax crystals, in artifacts that no longer seem to be work of man.
The books, in fact, are deliberately invested by a magical atmosphere and, after being frozen, resemble those rocks that we usually see in the enchanted forests of fantasy film.

A second life for these fascinating objects, become unfortunately, a bit ‘abandoned.