Reading Reading is a book inspired by a quote (from French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascale) which is also serves as its content. I believe that a book can also be a time-based medium if measures are taken to push the user’s experience of the contents inside. There are two ways to “read” the book, as the form plays with perception and experience in the relationship between time and reading. The first method reveals a message and image over the course of its pages, but with such slow, interrupted pacing that it is not easy to follow. The image at times even appears as if it is a woodcut landscape, with snowcapped mountains. The second read is prompted by the moving horse image in the lower corner. In order for the horse to “run” the pages must be flipped quickly, but then the words alongside the horse appear too quickly to be understood.
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| “When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.” —Blaise Pascale |
