Artists‘ Book Project

As Stephen Bury mentioned, 'Artists' books are books or book-like objects over the final appearance of which an artist has had a high degree of control; where the book is intended as a work of art in itself.'  In this project, I try to do an artwork rather than just a book to express the concept of safety.  The cover of the book is consists of hundreds of needles connected with red string, which seems very dangerous, but for the book, it is an effective way to protect itself and avoid viewers to touch and read the content.  In fact, it can be read if viewers open it with great care.  To some extent, this kind of great care of touch and flip, for the book itself, is a self-defence, but for viewers, is a self-protection.  The contradiction between them creates the feeling of safety from different perspectives.  Turning to the content of the book, there is some of my material practice towards different ‘personalities’ of the object.  Like people, the reason of having some different personalities is to protect themselves, the object have the right to project themselves.  So try to use some materials to create different possibilities of the shape, and to some extent that is the expression of different ‘personalities’.