The Missing Book
What is reading? What are you reading? What is the difference of text and blankness and what do
they tell you?
This is what I want to question the reader, by my book design. The sentences that tell the story are
crossed — is a story necessary? Space is constructed in text — how does time pass and what had
happened in-between? Are you reading the blankness?
Instead of presenting the book for reader, I allow the public to go to the bookcase and dig for the
“real” book among 16 empty books. I intend to let them questioned, also with the interaction and
effort they pay.
The novel, in the style of stream of consciousness doesn’t narrate either a great story, or construct
a deep thought. It only depicts and simulates the feelings that pass through the mind. I always like
to read this kind of literature to get lost, and to forget my expectation from the reading. This time, I
want people not only to read and get the things they “want” from reading, but also focus and think
about the activity of reading itself.