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Photos by Jillian Blackwell and Aubrey Theobald.
Writing a Sentence as Someone Reads It is an upcoming book I designed for artist Jillian Blackwell, whose work centers on play, surprise, and participation. Just as its title suggests, this book reflects on questions of engagement in art-making and viewing experiences–musing on the relationship between the maker and the viewer and on the ways in which everyday life bleeds into art practice.
The design of the book was meant to interrupt the usual experience of reading, with text at times obscured by image. Just as Jillian’s practice plays with one’s expectations of viewership–involving her own artworks and others’–she and I play with the experience of the book, of flipping through pages, looking at photographs, and reading.