"I Need Nerdy Bookends"

For this one I needed to create a set of bookends where the story is literally bursting out of the covers. I started by attaching generic metal corner bookends inside the book so they would be invisible but functional. Then I (ahem) absolutely destroyed the covers of the books. BUT ALL FOR GOOD REASON STAY WITH ME. I sculpted and fired polymer clay into the shapes I wanted for each book, then covered those sculptures with scrap paper I had on hand from the book vandalization. Covered with text from the story, these pieces look like they are bursting out from the book itself! All pieces were affixed with two part epoxy for ultimate adhesion. Reader beware.