Reading as Access Labour/Access Intimacy

My BookArt explore reading as a physical and ethical encounter. Access to the story is made unstable through obstruction, fragmentation, and reordering. Rather than delivering meaning, the books ask the reader to negotiate it through effort, attention, and memory. Language appears as something partial and contingent: held, withheld, shuffled, or interrupted. Meaning emerges through repetition, juxtaposition, and return rather than sequence or explanation.

Poetry for Sale

This book compiles responses to an open invitation offering poetry for free. The poems themselves are absent. Instead, the work documents the language of reply, revealing how gestures of openness are interpreted, redirected, or claimed. Reading becomes an encounter with expectation.

Unread

A hand-made book constructed from layered and folded tracing paper, in which narrative fragments remain visible but difficult to access. The text is present yet withheld. The work explores the tension between care, opacity, and the desire to be read on one’s own terms.

Unlinear

A non-linear book composed of fragments written on playing cards assembled from fragments drawn from different dyslexic poets and authors. Removed from their original contexts, the lines are allowed to resonate through proximity rather than continuity. The work treats interruption and drift as productive reading conditions. The cards can be read in any order, allowing meaning to accumulate through juxtaposition rather than sequence. Authorship and narrative coherence are deliberately unsettled, placing responsibility for sense-making in the reader’s hands.