This was not crystallized by the ocean. People. No. This is why artist credit is SO DAMN IMPORTANT THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE MISINFORMED HERE.
Alexis Arnold is an artist who creates crystallized books. Her work is amazing and beautiful, she’s made dozens of these.
This particular one was not made by her, however, it was actually created by Catherine McEver – who was inspired to try it after seeing a show of Alexis Arnold’s work. It’s literally the first picture on Google image results if you search for “crystallized books” and she posted about it on her blog showing other process shots as she made it.
TWO DIFFERENT WOMEN ARE BEING DEPRIVED OF CREDIT FOR THEIR CREATIVITY BECAUSE THIS FALSE INFORMATION IS BEING SPREAD. FUCK THAT.
Considering how many times I’ve seen the uncredited post on my dash I’m finally going to reblog it, with the proper credits.
1) how the fuck do you crystallize a book?
2) it looks cronchy i want to bite
I’m legally obligated to reblog this when I see it stopped at a question because I did this and it mostly worked. Short version:
1) Dissolve borax in water, put book in water, let crystals form.
2) Please do not eat borax crystals.
Longer version: the challenge here isn’t making the crystals. That will happen by itself just fine. The challenge is that the crystals take a while to form (and form better if left longer) and the book will want to float in the water. Also the spine will want to fall apart if it’s supporting weight while waterlogged. Some clever system could maybe be devised to hold the book down without getting in the way or destroying the book, but I didn’t realize I would need that until it was too late so mine was not great. Also I tried to make the pages look cool by folding them in but folded far too few pages per clump.
A Glitch Named Anti 