How To Open A Book
This illustrated book turns everyday gestures into brightly colored instruction guides. Each page transforms a fleeting thought or routine action into an illustration, using bold colors, hand-drawn textures, and cursive type to make even the smallest moments feel sweet, intentional, and newly noticeable.
The project began with the random thoughts that pass through my daily life, ideas usually too trivial or too strange to hold onto. By translating them into graphic illustrations with toned-down color palettes, I aim to defamiliarize the mundane. Familiar actions, like opening a book, are reframed as things you have to relearn, making the ordinary feel unexpected and slightly surreal.
To me, this book gives form to irrationality, humor, and private thought, treating the insignificant and the impossible with the same seriousness as a technical manual. Through this project, I hope to question what we consider meaningful and invite readers to reconsider how they pay attention to the world in a more playful way.
