My Little Body

In the poetic workshop with Redell Olsen at the Wellcome Collection, I mainly found three apparently very different objects in the exhibition “Medicine Man” that I felt could be related. I chose the 1) the Doctor’s signboard hung with human teeth (Chinese, acquired before 1936); 2) Lock of hair, said to be King George III’s (1760- 1820); 3) the tattoos on human skin (French, 1850-1900). They are implicitly related because all of them are the removable part of the human body.

Medicine Man

Loneliness in the West

Last Monday, Helen started the 3-day workshop with asking us to write two pieces of writings at the very first.

The first writing is about Helen asked us to write the book you want to make at that moment. This is something called “creative writing”. Helen said, “You can just let your mind goes wherever it wants and you can just write what you think. If your mind is thinking about the book, then you write about the book. If then your mind changes to think about your lunch last night, just also write them down.” What we need to do is just keep on writing. My first piece of writing is about my main MA project, which is about the cultural difference and mixture and make a book about this.

The second piece of writing is about a place. Helen just asked us to write about a place we remember in these several days. What I remember is the “bus stop”. On the Saturday before, I went to the Artist book Bookshop. After that, I was waiting for a bus at the bus stop there. Suddenly, when I’m waiting, I felt lonely. That is this small piece of writing is all about.

Structure Testing Dummy 01

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

This structure-testing dummy is called 2 sides.

I’m studying the cultural difference and combination of the east and the west. Binding of the book is one kind of difference in these two different book cultures. I would like to combine these two kinds of binding together.

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