What does it mean to make something legible? When our erotic experiences overwhelm and defy our preconceived worldviews, how can we eschew rigid definitions? This brilliant article inspired me to edit and design a cross-genre anthology of texts dealing with interspecies intimacy, legibility, eroticism, desire, embodiment, queerness, and transhumanism.
The book proposes an openness to ambiguity and lack of resolution. It is Japanese-folded and printed on semi-transparent paper, with images of mixed human and aquatic bodies and intimacies nested inside the folds, simultaneously withheld and seeping out across the translucent paper onto the surface. Binding is hand-sewn with multiple thin, colored threads.
detail of Japanese fold
detail of Japanese fold
detail of Japanese fold
