Brian Dettmer’s Solution for Recycling Cassette Tapes and Encyclopedia

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Image: Andrew Huff, Flickr Skull #11 (’80s Metal), 2006, by Brian Dettmer Obsolescence. A leit-motif of our modern age is captured with grace and humor in the artwork of Brian Dettmer . Starting with once common but now superfluous items such as cassette tapes or Encyclopedia sets, Brian Dettmer creates

new beauty. The mere concept of reformulating a dead media as a skeleton suffices, but Dettmer hones the message; as the viewer’s eyes scan the warped words on each cassette, the titles drive…

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Brian Dettmer’s Solution for Recycling Cassette Tapes and Encyclopedia



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