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

















Un—Folded by Haein Song

Designed and printed in 2023
Bound in 2024
310 x 251 x 8 mm

Un—Folded is a book with sixteen cyanotype images and seven specially commissioned poems by Sam Winston on themes of space, time, and genealogy. Sixteen folded shapes (jong-e-jeop-ki in Korean), all created using the method of interlocking, were unfolded, and lines were drawn where the final folds occurred. These 'unintended drawings' were an attempt to reveal the abstract maps or way-findings of the paper foldings, showing a willingness to comprehend the unknown.

These drawings were then cyanotype printed on Tosa Washi 28gsm paper. The poems were set in Tisa Sans and letterpress printed from polymer plates using a Vandercook SP15 press. Some lines of the poems were printed on the reverse side with horizontally flipped text, offering the possibility of alternative readings. The images are printed on fore-edge folded sheets, and the poems on single sheets.

The book is stab bound with a hard case covered in Windsor Morton, and housed in a drawer-style box covered in Windsor Conwy with suede panels in Chamel Ecru. Each book is accompanied by a cyanotype print on Zerkall 225gsm paper; all sixteen unfolded paper foldings were layered on top and exposed for half an hour to create the final print.

Cyanotype printing was done using facilities at East London Printmakers, and letterpress printing and bookbinding at London Centre for Book Arts.

The edition is limited to 42 numbered copies.