Art that carved portraits of celebrities such as President Obama in a telephone directory

When looking up the phone number of a store or facility, there are many people who search on the Internet before turning up a thick phone book. Although it is a telephone directory that may become a relic of the past, there seems to be an artist practicing a completely new usage.

Mr. Alex Queral's sculpture takes advantage of the thickness of the phone book and the shadow of printing to express the portrait of celebrities such as President Obama and Jack Nicholson.

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Alex Queral (51 years old) from Philadelphia said one day she saw an old telephone directory that was piled on the roadside and waiting for collection, "I suddenly thought that it would be a good sculpture material," he said It is.

President Obama.


Clint Eastwood.


It seems that facial features like Jack Nicholson tend to be subjects.


Dalai Lama.


It is three-dimensional like this when seen from the side.


These sculptures are made by carefully cutting out the pages of the phone book one by one carefully. It is an extremely time-consuming work, and it is the limitation of handling two celebrities in a month.