Qinghong Xu's profile

Weaving Memories of Dream And Reality

8" x 9.5".
Cotton rag paper, organza, jean fabric, photo emulsion, fabric pen, string.
February, 2013.
 
A trash-based bookart project. My ideas about this project were both physical as well as mental; I collected two weeks' real trashes (1 item/per day) from my daily life in reality, and also recorded mental trashes from my dreams over the same period. The real-life trashes were photo-emulsions of concrete objects, while the mental trashes were abstract and segmental sentences describing particular scenes. The texture of organza was perfect for dream-like states, and jean fabric with cotton rag paper fitted for realistic documentation.
Weaving Memories of Dream And Reality
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Weaving Memories of Dream And Reality

A time-based book art project. Students were assigned to follow their own life traces for a two-week period by means of collecting trashes they t Read More

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