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Fold is a book of the human moments surrounding loss, mourning, understanding and catharsis. It consists of twelve open-licensed photos carefully selected from | Fold is a book of the human moments surrounding loss, mourning, understanding and catharsis. It consists of twelve open-licensed photos carefully selected from the myriad of images on Flickr. Each image rests in a square, collapsable origami module, with a palette associated with mourning rituals in certain cultures, including black, white and silver. The photos follow a sequence, indicated by the book cover on the opposite side of each module. When assembled, the cover reads as one strip of folded sediments from a mountain, an image modified from a photo selected from Flickr as well. The book folds into a cuboid measuring 9 x 9 x 4.5cm and is placed in a container with credits of the image sources. | ||
How can one respect a book through one's interactions with it? I started the book with this question, which led to my decision for a book structure that allowed the development of a ritual: through (un)folding, opening and closing. Experimenting with origami (Japanese) and zhezhi (Chinese), I arrived at the final configuration. The form gave substance to the subject I had in mind: human emotions, whether voluntarily expressed or deliberately hidden. Folding evoked concealment, denial and deception while unfolding: truth, awareness and reconciliation. I focused on the emotion grief because of its complexity and the depth of empathy it was capable of elicit. The search terms I used including sadness, death, sorrow. As I looked closely at the results on my screen, I found myself drawn to moments that revealed insight through what was unsaid. One image I encountered early in the process, in which a man, holding a baby basket, looked back at the room his family was leaving, and for which the caption read "Last Funeral, vol.2", spoke to me with its subtleness and intimacy. It influenced my choices for other photos in the sequence. | |||
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Revision as of 13:59, 2 December 2018
intro
Fold is a book of the human moments surrounding loss, mourning, understanding and catharsis. It consists of twelve open-licensed photos carefully selected from the myriad of images on Flickr. Each image rests in a square, collapsable origami module, with a palette associated with mourning rituals in certain cultures, including black, white and silver. The photos follow a sequence, indicated by the book cover on the opposite side of each module. When assembled, the cover reads as one strip of folded sediments from a mountain, an image modified from a photo selected from Flickr as well. The book folds into a cuboid measuring 9 x 9 x 4.5cm and is placed in a container with credits of the image sources.
How can one respect a book through one's interactions with it? I started the book with this question, which led to my decision for a book structure that allowed the development of a ritual: through (un)folding, opening and closing. Experimenting with origami (Japanese) and zhezhi (Chinese), I arrived at the final configuration. The form gave substance to the subject I had in mind: human emotions, whether voluntarily expressed or deliberately hidden. Folding evoked concealment, denial and deception while unfolding: truth, awareness and reconciliation. I focused on the emotion grief because of its complexity and the depth of empathy it was capable of elicit. The search terms I used including sadness, death, sorrow. As I looked closely at the results on my screen, I found myself drawn to moments that revealed insight through what was unsaid. One image I encountered early in the process, in which a man, holding a baby basket, looked back at the room his family was leaving, and for which the caption read "Last Funeral, vol.2", spoke to me with its subtleness and intimacy. It influenced my choices for other photos in the sequence.
notes on making a photobook
1.
folding and revealing
Eikoh Hosoe, Kammaitachi
2.
folding as an action -- ritual
folding as a metaphor -- layers, deception, unawareness -- unfolding truth
3.
folding as a form -- origami
http://origamitutorials.com/origami-chinese-thread-book/
4.
Chinese??
esoteric history, thread book in SW China [1]
esoteric history 2, froebelian (what a word) influence of Chinese folding books [2]
appropriating forms...
encounters of the past (whatever that is) through internet...
photobook presentation
Holland: Magie van de Werkelijkheid
File:Jue-Yang-Presentation-13-11.pdf
it would have been nice
I would have liked to present Border Film Project, a book from a larger project of participatory photography[3], which I perused at Aeromoto in Mexico City. Unfortunately I couldn't find a copy immediately available in the Netherlands at the Fotomuseum Library.