PUBLICATION / 2017
COMMUNICATION

Ruminations is a publication based on a self-made manifesto titled, Mono-No-Awaré.
A Japanese term regarding the pathos towards melancholy, With this mood, acceptance of impermanence and insubstantiality are elevated into an aesthetic sensibility, a state of mind that actually appreciates this ephemerality. This melancholy is suffused with a quiet rejoicing in the fact that we had the chance to witness the beauty of life at all, however fleetingly.

This book is the direct response to the term, creating a tangible piece which embraces this ideology. It deals with the diffculity of the normality of abuse in Asian households and growing from it. I took real confessionals from online forums and distorted the type, which represents the hesitance to speak up about this issue. I also incorprated poetry, imagery and the use of the typeface, ZXX. A typeface designed by an Asian graphic designer with the intention for computers to not be able to decipher the text.