Nos trabalhos da artista britânica Su Blackwell os livros parecem ganhar vida. Nas lojas de livros usados procura textos que a inspirem - romances, contos de fadas, de botânica, etc. - e depois recorta delicadamente as páginas numa escultura de papel que parece crescer a partir do livro. Com imaginação literária transforma-os em obras tridimensionais e faz as histórias brotar de literalmente dos seus livros.
Su Blackwell diz das suas criações:
It is the delicacy, the slight feeling of claustrophobia, as if these characters, the landscape have been trapped inside the book all this time and are now suddenly released. A number of the compositions have an urgency about them, the choices made for the cut-out people from the illustrations seem to lean towards people on their way somewhere, about to discover something, or perhaps escaping from something. And the landscapes speak of a bleak mystery, a rising, an awareness of the air."