The Cut-Out Book, 2019
The narrow alleyways of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, (aka hẻms) are always unpredictable and whimsical. For one of my Ph.D projects I created this art book where I cut out the signatures in random shapes. The book became a space that held the city I wanted to emulate. It was not the hẻm and neither just a replica of it anymore but an in-between of its own nature. It was a three-dimensional artefact showcasing a flat scenery. The combinations of the page’s kept create new collaged cities that open up new territories for practice. The accumulation of pages add a different reading where the sequence and order of the drawings is as important as each individual page. . Just like the hẻm’s landscapes, every turn of the page created a new visual surprise.
The narrow alleyways of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, (aka hẻms) are always unpredictable and whimsical. For one of my Ph.D projects I created this art book where I cut out the signatures in random shapes. The book became a space that held the city I wanted to emulate. It was not the hẻm and neither just a replica of it anymore but an in-between of its own nature. It was a three-dimensional artefact showcasing a flat scenery. The combinations of the page’s kept create new collaged cities that open up new territories for practice. The accumulation of pages add a different reading where the sequence and order of the drawings is as important as each individual page. . Just like the hẻm’s landscapes, every turn of the page created a new visual surprise.