Paper

One of the first things I noticed when I walked into the art gallery room was this weird looking pop-up book. It was not like any other pop-up book I have ever seen where each individual page has its own little cool design that pops out at you. This one actually fit the definition of “pop-up” a lot better. The book that was designed by Jong-Yoon Kim actually came right out of its cover; it looked as if all of the pages were actually attached on one side of each other, which they were. Within every indent, which is actually just one page, there were actual pop-up designs shaped like stairs. These stairs did not seem to go anywhere but every page had its own unique design of stairs. This kept on going as the chain of pages turned back towards the cover and spine of the book, with each page possessing pop-up stairs, which is the title of this unique piece of art work. The way that the stair cases were put together by Kim reminded me of the famous painting of stairs that keep leading to more stairs; however, I am not quite sure of the name of that painting. When you really analyze this piece you really start to wonder how this could be done, it is so clearly out of my league when it comes to artistic ability and creativity that I found myself scratching my head wondering how long this must have taken and how much patients it must have taken. I thought, maybe he made the book first then cut the pop-up stairs into it after, but then I realized that by doing it that way it would be near impossible to make the stairs as perfect as he did. Eventually I just figured that since this piece intrigued me so much that this is the one I should write about.