The Sound of Silence

The Sound of Silence is a handmade artist book that explores silence not as absence, but as a tactile, present force. Something you encounter through texture, rhythm, and material sensitivity. This project investigates how silence can be expressed through analog processes, inviting the viewer to engage with slowness, subtlety, and space. The publication is entirely analog: all imagery is created through inkjet monotype printing, text is embossed into the paper rather than printed with ink, and supplemental imagery is applied using hand-carved rubber stamps. The book is bound as an accordion fold, allowing it to unfold spatially, suggesting motion through structure, not animation. A companion book contextualizes the project with a concept statement, material explanations, and poetic reflections. The inclusion of poetry, some original and some found, mirrors the emotional nuance of silence, offering a second language for what cannot be explained directly. Together, these works ask readers to listen with their hands, to interpret through light, and to consider what it means to make space for quiet. This project also reflects my personal relationship with silence: as a creative space, as a response to loss, and as a deliberate act of resistance to noise, both visual and cultural. The physicality of the work, its weight, its pressure, its fragility, asks for attention that is rare in a fast-paced world. The Sound of Silence is both an object and an experience: a quiet record of presence.