Reading Through Traces
Reading Through Traces begins with the traces left on books.
The work starts from the alphabet, the smallest and most basic unit encountered when reading books in English. Each letter, made from masking tape, is cut, folded, unfolded, and reconfigured, moving away from its fixed form as a character. The letter no longer remains only as something to be read. It turns into a trace that supports the process of understanding: a line, an arrow, a bracket, or an underline that creates direction, marks pauses, and leaves emphasis within reading.
In the exhibition, the work is placed across two tables. One table presents the unfolded and transformed alphabet works, while the other gathers research, tests, rules, sketches, and process materials. Rather than offering a complete explanation, the two tables work as an open archive through which the viewer can follow and read between traces and process.
