final project for my “Distribution of Literature” workshop during my undergrad senior year at UCSD. overseen by Lorena Gomez Mostajo, we dissected Carrión’s “The New Art of Making Books” and created a visual chapbook with our reinterpretations.
for the assignment, we had to pick one quote from Carrión’s work to respond to. i chose the following:
“In the new art you write ‘I love you’ being aware that we don’t know what this means. You write this phrase as part of a text wherein to write ‘I hate you’ would come to the same thing.”
to which i responded with the below while referencing Saussure’s notion of the arbitrarily structured relationship between a word (the signifier) and its meaning (the signified):
書く言葉の文字（しょきそ）はただの意味を決められて整然と落書きである。
(in every single written language, all graphemes, old and new, are simply organized scribbles that we have assigned meaning to.)
in addition to submitting a design to be featured within the book, i was tasked with risograph printing and booklet assembly. the book itself was printed on A4 card stock, folded in half and bound with rubber bands. the content was printed in black and white greyscale, while the cover was printed in red ink.
all photos used in my response were taken myself.
overall project timespan: February 2016 to March 2016 (roughly 10 weeks)
time spent for design: about one week
designed on Adobe Photoshop CS6
special thanks: Lorena Gómez Mostajo, Josephine Leong, Dan-Tran Cong Huyen, Samantha Andico
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