MISSING WORDS: MAY 2005
For this bookwork, I utilized cut digital letterforms to translate Mark Strand’s poem. The sixteen pages spell out the phrase “I AM WHAT IS MISSING.” The missing counterforms become the content for the book. The letterforms are missing from the pages; they become legible only when the page is picked up from the stack, and the void becomes filled in. The solid void relationship creates a series of patterns that changes as the viewer flips the individual pages of the book. Simple words, but their content is all that is necessary to convey the meaning.
