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ALONE
“During the intervening liminal period, the state of the ritual
subject (the “passenger,” or “liminar,”) becomes ambiguous,
neither here nor there, betwixt and between all fixed points
of classification; he passes through a symbolic domain that
has few or none of the attributes of his coming state.”
- Victor Turner
ALONE is a project where I pondered the meaning of liminality and how it fits into my work. When thinking about the "in-betweens" on my semester, I thought about how I loved sewing books, and how the spine was the "in-between" for a book. Instead of leaving the sewing just in the spine, I focused this project on sewing the text onto the paper itself. I chose a passage from Alan Lightman's "Einstein's Dreams" for the text, and the chapter focuses on a village that is stuck in time.
I chose an accordian fold for this book, since it gave me the flexibility to showcase the front and back of the pages at the same time. Technically typeset in Gotham, but sewn text has its own unique look.