Haein Song


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

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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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Nine Books of the Absurd

Altered Book Structure
Completed in 2008

9 used books.
A different folding method has been applied to each book.
Supported link stitch.

The Myth of Sisyphus
Waiting for Godot
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Mozart Piano Concerto A major K488
World Atlas
The Holy Bible
Oxford English Dictionary
Colour Atlas & Textbook of Human Anatomy
Cacti and Succulents

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In Greek Mythology, Sisyphus' punishment was to push a boulder up a mountain only to see it roll down again, thereby having to repeat this process for eternity.

In Albert Camus' philosophical essay, The Myth of Sisyphus, a fable is used as a metaphor for the futility of man's endless search for meaning and clarity. Camus' view on the absurd led me to consider the structure of the book, questioning its form and the effort that went into creating them. Ultimately this led me to question the very form of something that I consider of value, hence the creation of these 9 books. With these I have striven to attain a sense of futility, whilst being immersed in a love of creation.