Book

I am rethinking my approach to designing this book while the book itself is still in the embryonic stage of being developed. I realize my way of making the book is not reflective or true of the content and purpose for this book.

The book was a chance for me to deal with content; the formal qualities of the motion sequences were overcoming any communication objective. The book would allow me to work intricately with the language; define voices or points of view and then let them speak on the page. Creating letter-press type for the Anne Sexton quote gave me a real sense of the words – the physicality of them and the impact they can have when they are broken apart. While I am also happy with the visual outcome from this process – there is a preciousness to these words on the page that is restricting my ability to combine them with other voices and letterforms.

I feel this book needs to be physical manifestation of the mental ‘piecing together’ that is occurring. This book is a recombination and reconstruction of voices; it makes sense that it is physically put together in this manner and readers can see that process. I am now considering collage, hand lettering, cutting and overlaying as methods to make this book.