“Engraving to Harlow from the series Encyclopedia by Brian Dettmer is a book based art work from 2008. It is made of a hardcover book with cut pages and acrylic cover. It measures nine and a half inches tall by six and three-quarters of an inch wide and one and a half inches thick. The cover is scarlet red with a leather texture. The center of the cover is cut out leaving a border that is about an inch wide all around. Inside the frame is an elaborately layered 3D collage. With the background and foreground centering around 3 male faces diagonally positioned from lowest head starting on the left and the highest on the right. The colored illustrations of heads have colored scenes behind them and in the foreground in front of them. The foreground is composed of newspaper articles chopped up into phrases and sentences. In addition to the text there are colored illustrations that seem to originate from children’s books of bridges and city scenes with tiny people, castles, a drum, a giant fish and a peek of a tire in the far-right background all intertwined into the image and encaged by the texted words. Text hangs in the foreground like banners, words staked in the middle read as: Father of earlier Father of is called Father of industrial Father of These words are typed out and cut out of newspaper articles and placed in front of the figures. Maps are also used in this 3D collage placed at the very first layer. There are roads and trails that read Black Sea, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria Other words on the left-hand corner are cut out and suspended between the foreground and the background. They are: London New Jersey San Francisco Chicago”