Ron King’s Log Books

Ron King, at Circle Press, has an on-going series of bookworks, begun in 1995, that explore the possibilities of sawing a log of wood into book sections, or pages, which can be reassembled into their original log form. The first one is called “Hollow Log.” “Pages” cut from the circumference of a hollow log were divided into four codex bound books of equal size.

Hollow Log by Ron King

Next is “Termite Grid”, inspired by the wood worm track on the outside of a log. It has finely sawn pages codex-bound in linen with a grid of hole drilled right through the thickness of the book block.

ron king's termite gold

Lots more of King’s artist’s books here.