Haein Song


Un—Folded
Whole
Light / Folds
Pain Memory
Marking Colour
A Brief History of...

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Queen Mary's Dolls' House
Winter's Tale
The Fragments of Parmenides
The Botanical City
Ornamental Digressions
Hungry Bibliophiles
Interstices & Intersections
Perpetua and Felicity
In Principio
La Prose du Transsibérien Re-creation
Dickinson's Selected Poems
Bram de Does
Russian Modernism
Beckett's Trilogy
The Songlines
Linear A to Linear Z
A Bend in the River
Mr. Palomar
Journey Round My Room
The Myth of Sisyphus
Romeo and Juliet
The Periodic Table
The Trial
Gogol's Collected Stories
Brush Up Your Shakespeare
Just So Stories
Le Grand Meaulnes
Whistler
Don't Look Now

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Three Plays of the Absurd
Nine Books of the Absurd

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About















Pain Memory by Haein Song

Designed in 2018
Printed and bound in 2019
290 x 240 x 16 mm

Pain Memory is a book exploring the experience of living with medically unexplained pain. The original images were pencil drawn at night with the least dominant hand in an attempt to document and map the experience of pain. Each drawing is an accumulation of few days to few weeks and was done over 7 months period in 2017 and 2018. The text was typewritten using Litton Imperial manual typewriter and reflects various researches on chronic pain, from the language of pain to medically unexplained condition and medications used for chronic pain.

The book contains 27 intaglio photopolymer etchings from the original images and is printed on 225gsm Zerkall mould made paper at the East London Printmakers. The process was done as a part of the Project Keyholder Residency Programme at the ELP and printed using the American French Tool Etching Press.

Hand sewn and bound in a modified sewn board binding and covered in Windsor Elcho and Pembroke. The book is housed in a solander box covered in Windsor Elcho with suede panels in Chamel Pourpre. The binding process was done using the facilities at the London Centre for Book Arts.

The edition is limited to 19 numbered copies.