18/12/2020
To plan out how I want my book to look like, I first looked at artist works that I felt drawn to.
Vincenzo Agnetti’s artist book ‘Libro dimenticato a memoria‘ (Book forgotten by heart) is striking in its simplicity and gives the hollow feeling of forgetting/losing information that was once vital enough to be in a book. The pages aren’t just blank; they’re voided, unable to write anything new onto as they have been hollowed out.
In another perspective, I feel like the pages became frames for whatever the book is in front of. The contents of the book can be constantly changed depending on where you choose to open/read it.
I really like the idea of making the pages hollowed out/frames.
An idea I really like is Marcin Turecki‘s work, self-portrait, creating a 3D face from stacking layers of glass with numbers to create dimension. A book can easily be viewed as somethin two-dimensional, though I think it’d be interesting to explore how the different pages can come together to form one whole piece that can be viewed simultaneously.
While thinking about how I would make the book or what it would really look like, I can across Susan Collard‘s A Short Course in Recollection which is a book that can function as a machine with contraptions that a stainless steel ball can roll around in, inspired by childhood toys. I especially like how one page would protrude to another page and slot into each other perfectly.
Thomas Friedrich Schaefer‘s Experiential Spaces series recreates scenes from his childhood in great detail from memory, which made me think back to the ‘HERE‘ assignment when I was exploring what ‘here’ was to me and came to the conclusion that it was anywhere that I felt familiar with or curate.
With all these ideas in mind, I wanted to create a book that looks like the classic hard cover, but opens up to be a room that includes all the objects that have meaning to me.
The room doesn’t exist in real life, though it is a combination between the places that give me comfort, and is a little room in my mind with everything I love that I can escape to.
The objects I’m including in the room are either specific things that I own or something that represent my interests.
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