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24 February 2009

Altered book - final stages

All the English-to-Chinese pages have been stamped, all the selected words have been listed on the first page of each letter, the presentation has been written out - the seal is stowed safely away in its cave in the Chinese-to-English section - and now the book needs a bag to "live" in --

The finished bag looks reasonably "chinese" -
About an hour before the presentation, I decided to change the second part of the presentation....
Maybe it's nonsense. But when you can't understand an explanation, you have a chance to make your own story about what's going on. Is it more frustrating to have an explanation that doesn't make sense, or no explanation at all?
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1 comment:

  1. RHONDA25 February 2009 at 20:28

    Interesting question. An explanation that we don't understand still conveys some part of the message, I believe. Gesture (even subliminal) and body language convey more than we consciously think they do. This was an interesting exercise. Thanks for sharing some of the other books with us.

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