'How to Pick Wildflowers' is a surrealist subversion of ‘how to’ style books that contemplates ‘how to live’, realised in three tactile hand-bound books.
How to Pick Wildflowers: Books
Series of 3 books, handmade, hardcover, coptic-bound and typewritten.
I: How to Exist
II: How to Find what you’re Looking For
III: How to Take a Life
At their core, these books are about struggling to find meaning within worlds defined by male philosophical thinkers.
I created a series of ‘how to’s in order to push reader interactivity and immersion: when reading ‘how to’ books, the audience is asked to consider the text in relationship to themselves and their actions. This series explores surrealist concepts and philosophical ideas, which creates an interesting tension with the logical and instructional assumptions of ‘how to’ books.
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