20 pages, pamphlet binding

W(hole) explores the idea of “the part to the whole”. Using visual play with interactive elements such as circle cut-outs, short pages, altered text, and the medium of collage; the viewer is challenged to consider the interactivity of the parts within each page, then each spread and finally, the book as a “whole.”

All materials including imagery and text are sourced from two design publications.

The book’s altered text reads:
Perhaps
I can discover the key to the system by simply observing.
what is it based on?
different form: circles,
symbols in… the printed page [would] induce, facilitate, a
non-linear
thinking about the structure of the
statement, in
words I find a better account of that wonder which enchant
my eyes,
their inventory of meanings
demonstrate that words are human art
Semantic poetry must be among the easiest kinds of poetry,
poems
simply atypical of poetic language.
apparent on a visual level, because
the well-ordered detail of the words manifests itself in the typography.
the structure of the sentences
the text.
hear it
as a clear,
vibrating,
resonant sound...
I can’t define.