“Since 1999 I collated scraps of paper, diary notes and typed word document all pertaining to this one idea I was trying to express through a story. […] By cutting out the words from my previous drafts I created clouds of text that I could use as the ‘typeface’ for my final draft. It is a book in which you have both the story and it’s history presented on the same page.” — Sam Winston

[source and rest of the series can be viewed here]

Sam Winston, Orphan Book Work (1999), digital printing on Tosa Washi paper

“Since 1999 I collated scraps of paper, diary notes and typed word document all pertaining to this one idea I was trying to express through a story. […] By cutting out the words from my previous drafts I created clouds of text that I could use as the ‘typeface’ for my final draft. It is a book in which you have both the story and it’s history presented on the same page.” — Sam Winston

[source and rest of the series can be viewed here]

Sam Winston, Orphan Book Work (1999), digital printing on Tosa Washi paper

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