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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Whole by Haein Song

Second edition
Produced in 2023
187 x 158 x 20 mm

Whole is a book exploring the interplay between order and randomness, using hidden rules and hand-punched holes to create intriguing compositions. It poses a series of questions, such as 'Is there really such a thing as randomness?' and 'Do we all live out patterns from the past?' that are translated into visual forms. Through the use of structure, pattern and gesture, the sequence of pages establishes a recognisable pattern before raising a question about its own rationale: 'If a rule to create cannot be retraced, does the rule still exist?' The book features five differently-sized circles, each containing three types of pages: those with discernible grids; those with specific applied rules (e.g. moving forwards or backwards, rotating and twisting, etc.); and pages that appear to be random, which are exclusive to each copy of the book.

Hand folded concertina style binding is covered in Windsor Berkeley. The front cover has cloth inlays in Windsor Rochester, which is a unique constellation of five differently-sized circles for each copy, reflecting the holes in each book. The book is housed in a solander box covered in Windsor Rochester with suede panels in Chamel Marine.

This edition is limited to 23 copies.

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First edition
Limited edition of 6 / Out of print
Produced in 2015
187 x 158 x 20 mm

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whether
there
is
any
underlying
order,
unity
or
logos

how
we
follow
patterns
of
the
universe
knowingly
and
unknowingly