六字回忆录/Six Words Memoir
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Collected in Joan Flasch Artist’s Book Collection
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2017年秋；芝加哥，伊利诺伊州/Fall 2017; Chicago, IL
有一次我在芝加哥市中心的名轩吃早茶，拿到了一个写着 “总会有人欣赏你的美” 的幸运饼干。我觉得这句话虽然很逗趣儿但又有很强的哲学意味。之后，当我拿到 “六字回忆录” 这个项目时，这句话再次浮现在了我的脑海中。我做了少许改写，使其更具山谷女孩般俏皮无礼—“总会有人欣赏你的美，绝对！”
*山谷女孩口音：上世纪七十年代源自美国南加州圣费尔南多谷 (San Fernando Valley, South California) 的颇具特色的口音，富含诸多经典用词和语调特征，具有时尚美丽但肤浅无脑的刻板印象。
When I was having some dim sum at MingHin Cuisine in downtown Chicago, I got a fortune cookie that says “Someone admires your beauty.” I thought it was funny but also profound. Later on, when I got the “Six Words Memoir” project, it came back to me all of a sudden and I revised it to make it a little more sassy, like “Valley Gurl-ish,” to “Someone admires your beauty, like TOTALLY!”
叩叩叩—哇噻! /Tattarrattat—Wow!
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Collected in Joan Flasch Artist’s Book Collection and the Type Shop in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
RIVES BFK printmaking paper; Letterpress
2017年秋；芝加哥，伊利诺伊州/Fall 2017; Chicago, IL
“Tattarrattat” 和 “wow” 本意为英语中最长和最短的回文（palindrome），而它们又在纸本空间中讲述了具有二重性的故事线索：它可以偏重形象思维：“敲门声响起 ☛（开门）☛ 哇噻！竟然是你？！”
也可以更偏逻辑思维：“看到最长的回文 ☛ 哇噻！（恰好形成最短的回文） ”
*tattarrattat
/ˌta-tə-ˈrä-tə/
onomatopoeia. 拟声词。叩叩叩。有节奏的敲门声。*palindrome
/ˈpa-lən-ˌdrōm/
noun. 回文；正反读拼写都一样的单词。“Tattarrattat” and “wow” are the longest and shortest palindromes in English, which create two storylines with duality on the paper:
One is more scenic: “Knock on the door ☛ (Door opened) ☛ Wow! It’s you!”
The other is more logical: “See the longest palindrome ☛ Wow! (Happens to be the shortest one.)”
西伯利亚—#芝伯利亚/Siberia—#Chiberia
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Collected in Joan Flasch Artist’s Book Collection and the Type Shop in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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2017年秋；芝加哥，伊利诺伊州/Fall 2017; Chicago, IL
位于美国的风城芝加哥以冬季严寒著称。在2018年其曾达到仅次于南极和西伯利亚的世界第三冷区域。当与原词 “西伯利亚” 并置时，编纂词 “#芝伯利亚/芝 (加哥) + (西) 伯利亚” 便幽默地突显了其冬天冰刀割脸般的严酷低温。
Chicago is well-known for its severely cold weather in winters. It was the third coldest place in 2018 following the Antarctica and Siberia. The made-up word “#Chiberia/Chi(cago) + (Si)beria”emphasizes the wintry harshness in a humorous way when it is juxtaposed with “Siberia.”
Special Thanks to
周 倩楠/Qiannan Zhou
#凸版印刷/letterpress
#版式设计/typography
#文字游戏/word play