Friends* Artist’s Notes
“A friend in need is a friend indeed.”
If everyone were a book, what kind of book would you be?
These seven books are my own interpretation of my seven friends in London. The totality of their attitudes, interests, behavioral patterns, emotional responses, and some of my own expectation to them are re-interpreted in these books. The personality of each of them is expressed through book structure and materials/ paper. Each book shows the quality of existing as a person. When they go together, they start to influence and interact with each other. Their behavioral patterns and emotional responses could be felt by the experience of physical and tactile reading of these books.
The title of this project is “be*friend” which means, “act as a friend”. Honestly, I didn’t know them for a long period of time, just about half a year; I even don’t understand them thoroughly; but I don’t think it is a problem. I just know that I made these friends wholeheartedly. I think it’s enough. At least, they occupied a place somewhere in my heart. I remember to make presents for them in Christmas or their own birthdays. All of us are international students, I truly want to give them a kind of warmth in these important dates, as I understand no one can get used to “lonely”. No one deserved to be alone.
Main Aims:
¹Book as gifts to my friends in London
²To acquire the knowledge of using structure and materials of books (instead of text & image) to express and interpret one’s personality and attitude
³To set my own language of structure & materials
Hei Shing
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