The work of Joe Rudko has inspired me to look towards what is already present in books; to find checkpoints that have been left behind by previous readers. This usually exists as a folded corner on the page; a tactile marker that can be found again. If I was to find a book with folded corner pages I could then find a common connection between those specific pages; what was the reader interested in? Why did they want to come back to that page? Or is it simply a sign of a break in the reading process?
What would be interesting to draw from this would be to map the process of reading and stopping; to catalogue the reading process of another reader and attempt to visualise any patterns… Tracing a path Mapping a route Finding relationships between separate points Condensing a narrative Utilising the text Appropriation as a means to make maps that incorporate image, line and text Disrupting the reading process and ‘fault lines’ in a physical space Taking meanings intended by the author and moulding them to fit a new narrative Making the map unique to that book Picture it as a “cartographic review of [insert book title here]; engineered by an unknown reader, plotted by Rachael Coward
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AuthorThird Year BA Hons Fine Art student studying at Falmouth University Archives
April 2017
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