Narrative Fiction project & Bookbinding workshop with Kate Holland

                     
 

To explore the circle of life as my idea in fiction project, the theme was the voice of nature, saying that there are various life on nature we have seen or never noticed, could whisper, screaming or stable conversation. I was planning to do both outside and indoor and gathering dried and fresh flowers, placing them randomly and taking photos, also, I went to aquarium, seeking the atmosphere of loneness, death stillness as well as life of growing, because it was dull for me if only taking flowers and I ending up to testing different types of nature, I did outside but not really fit well, so picking up few images spoke to other images when doing editing.

                           

When considering text, I was told to write with mother language and translate into to English, however, realizing that major audience are English speakers, then I decided to put English text first then mother language on the next page, which was more like self-taking. I didn't experiment a lot of bookmaking, it was my intuition coming up with maybe French and Japanese binding would work amazingly, then I decided immediately to use this structure as my final outcome.

                      

When we were running binding workshop, I was told using a hand drill to punch the holes, which I felt it was difficult and also I broke one of the drill bits, after holes were made, then started sewing which began from inside of second hole. When I finished, I found that I should do research on Japanese binding, what I expected about literally was 4-holes binding not multiple holes, but it was acceptable and I was suggested by the workshop tutor to put something on front cover, like scratching, however, I was afraid it would be ruin by doing that, consequence, I used watercolour pen and scoring tool to create a tree as the terrible drawing on front cover, indicating the book is about death and life on nature.