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