2024
Handmade books
Food diaries
This work uses a handmade book (including self-papermaking) as a medium and creates a food diary with the theme of food healing. The most exciting part is the creation of a food dialogue system. From our perspective, we only get energy from food. From the perspective of food, they are very perceptive. They never survive passively, but make self- selections through external conditions, dedicating the most vital and fruitful stages to humans. This is a process of healing humans at the cost of sacrifice.
One of the motivations for creating a food diary comes from a Japanese TV series, "The Solitary Gourmet". In the complex modern rhythm, we are not bound by time and society. In the short time of enjoying food, we are free and aloof. This behaviour is the highest level of healing that modern people are equally endowed with. The existence of this taste is a symbol of regional culture. At the beginning, I investigated the public's attitude towards food, investigated the fit of different carriers to express the theme, and finally determined to present it in the form of a handmade book through papermaking experiments.