For almost a decade, artist Jaqueline Rush Lee has found herself drawn to the intimate, tactile, and symbolic qualities of used books.

Interested in how recycled books come with their own histories of use and meaning, she works with their delicate form as a canvas or building block.

"...I transform the books into sculptures that explore and redefine the book as familiar object, medium, and archetypal form." she says of her pieces.

We're fascinated by her technique of 'scrambling the formal arrangement of the book' through which she creates an alternative narrative - and through it, a new reading of an object still partially recognisable, partially its own organic form...