Year
2017
Type
Graduate studio
Tools
1/8" clear acrylic, lasercutter, transparency paper, epoxy, wood dowels, acrylic paint, bristol
Location
Graduate Media Design Practices Studio (Pasadena, CA)
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hanami 168: eternal spring is a speculative design fiction that engages with the time-sense of cherry blossoms. The story illustrates a world where your sense of time is bound to the birth and death of cherry blossoms, and you can never stay somewhere long enough to watch them finish blooming.
The book shown here is a physical manifestation of the story of hanami. Similar to how the poets in the story find themselves in an eternal loop of spring, the book is designed with no beginning or end and refuses to be read in a sequential manner. The reader is forever stuck in limbo.
Once you close and re-open the apparatus, it is impossible to pick up where you left off since the index cards will float to whichever side they please.