This is one part imaginative, another part well photographed. Thomas Allen takes old encyclopedias and science books and cuts them out to create these illustrations. In the end, his work is like book archaeology. 

These are major "wows." We have seen great works in the realm of 3D carvings in books, but this series of carved landscapes in books by Guy Laramee are the best books sculptures we have seen all year. As Laramee notes: The erosion of cultures – and of "culture" as a whole - is the theme that runs through the last 25 years of my artistic practice.

At first we weren't quite sold on the guns from book carving concept by NY-based Robert The, but once wer realized he wasn't carving Harry Potter books into guns because that was what was on his nightstand, we became bigger fans of the project.