Size
Pages
Pages
5,5 x 7 inches
26 pp
April 2024
26 pp
April 2024
patternbook compiles 13 double-sided images, exploring obsession through local and transnational cartography.
On facing pages are personal close-up photographs of pavement markings and garment tracings, penciled on alphanumeric paper and chalked on fabric. On the opposite sides are reproductions of appropriated colonial paraphernalia: American military occupation maps, triangulation nets from the Japanese Imperial Land Survey, and advertisement pamphlets disseminated by the Japanese Tourist Bureau.
In xian-zhuang pocket binding style, pages are folded in half, their centerfolds forming the right-hand edges of the book. Raw edges are joined along the spine, creating enclosed pockets that hide the backs of the double-sided photographs, concealing the colonial propaganda.
But this alternate history, act of concealment and forced illegibility, parallels the ways in which personal garments, public crosswalks, and global borders are mapped—engaged in bodily, spatial and geopolitical relations that are intimate, imposed and arbitrary.
Inkjet on 35lb newsprint. Perfect bound with Flexibind.
Accompanied by a poster, see patternbook jido
On facing pages are personal close-up photographs of pavement markings and garment tracings, penciled on alphanumeric paper and chalked on fabric. On the opposite sides are reproductions of appropriated colonial paraphernalia: American military occupation maps, triangulation nets from the Japanese Imperial Land Survey, and advertisement pamphlets disseminated by the Japanese Tourist Bureau.
In xian-zhuang pocket binding style, pages are folded in half, their centerfolds forming the right-hand edges of the book. Raw edges are joined along the spine, creating enclosed pockets that hide the backs of the double-sided photographs, concealing the colonial propaganda.
But this alternate history, act of concealment and forced illegibility, parallels the ways in which personal garments, public crosswalks, and global borders are mapped—engaged in bodily, spatial and geopolitical relations that are intimate, imposed and arbitrary.
Inkjet on 35lb newsprint. Perfect bound with Flexibind.
Accompanied by a poster, see patternbook jido