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The thirteen books included in this thesis are all cases entrusted by the authors at the outset; however, the working process involves a constant negotiation of power in terms of a shifting sense of self-positioning as well as an interpretative freedom of the work. The emotional understanding of the work always differs from individual to individual; hence an appropriate, unified narrative is, in effect, an unattainable illusion. As an active reader, I would argue, the relationship with the text is supposed to be in a state of “multiple reflection,” infinitely reiterating, recurring and returning to a boundlessly receding space where reading is free from boundaries and full of possibilities. Through this thesis, I endeavor to lay bare my conceptual work behind each book design; simply put, my art and design acts as an expressive form of an emotional understanding of the contents of books as well as a personal narrative of reading experiences, which leads to a tangible, visual demonstration of my response to the work. This is an endless race between Achilles and the tortoise: I go on working, still musing…
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