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Antes del papel, las opciones de escritura eran limitadas: piedras, hojas, pieles de animales y huesos. Pero gracias al inventor chino Cai Lun en el 50 d.C., la aparición del papel impulsó la civilización ancestral china.

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(via dennis yuen [art] - Rapunzel - artist, designer, technologist)

Throughout the month of December last year, I was working on a piece that I hoped would help me to try working in an obsessive mode. Rapunzel involved cutting up about half a mile of cotton twine into 3- to 4-feet pieces, and gluing them individually onto a two-needle coptic bound book. If stretched wide, it spans about 7 feet, and is definitely the largest piece I've done so far. Rapunzel is the first piece in a series that re-tells familiar children stories though books, but only through the physicality of these books. Every material in this book is white (or off-white), so the viewer is confronted with its physical form, and forced to address it. Embodied into its binding and form, the essence of Rapunzel can be seen and touched through the physical book. (via Hairy new work - CaiLun.info - Artist Books Paper & Bookbinding Blog - Cai Lun - Dennis Yuen)

The Duotone series use solely black-and-white materials to create contrasting elements and to accentuate the structure and form of the objects. (via Duotone #2 - CaiLun.info - Artist Books Paper & Bookbinding Blog - Cai Lun - Dennis Yuen)