tHe me bOok
Date:
Feburary 2024
Intro:
A handcrafted textual object composed of botanical elements, bodily residues, and olfactory traces.
It resists language as its primary medium and instead proposes a sensory-first reading system:
information is transmitted through scent, seepage, stitching, and residue—rather than through text or visual structure.
This book is not meant to explain, but to sustain a state of unhealing.
Each page is treated as a failed act of care, a fragment of unfinished transformation.
What is stitched together is time, silence, and the desire to delay disappearance;
what is sealed within is a logic of memory that belongs to the body.
My understanding of writing departs from language construction and moves toward a form of arrangement that emerges from within the body itself: materials carry energy, scents possess order, and the page becomes a vessel for perception.
In this work, content is not written onto the object—it seeps out from it.
Ultimately, it becomes an unstable textual body: it continues to emit, but never resolves into meaning.
Like a fragment left behind from an incomplete surgery, or a ritualistic letter addressed to no one.
Material: Paper mache, leaves, medical supplies, essential oils, paints, needlework