I was browsing social media sites and saw a share about the visual effect of a torn trace paper with writing on it. It looked a lot like torn or burnt letters to me.
I also had some burnt letters during the burning of my invisible ink letters. I found that I could see some traces of writing on them as well. It occurred to me that for people who have a hard time expressing themselves, writing a letter isn't really easy. We think twice about what we are going to say, word it and revise it, so there must be a lot of scrap paper. I think they are part of the process of 'trying to express'.
If the invisible ink letters are put up in the graduation exhibition, I hope it will be a project that people can get involved in because it's about exploration and healing, and I hope that this way I can help people who also have a hard time expressing themselves.
I plan to have a small table and a rug in the booth, along with white vinegar and pens. So that people could write a letter on the spot and, because it was invisible ink, not have to worry about people seeing what they'd written.
But there still seems to be something wrong with this approach to me. Because it relies on the action shots of me writing the invisible letter and burning out the glyphs to show the meaning behind it, it might be difficult for people who don't know so much about the project to understand what the burned letter represents. So it may be necessary to accompany it with a video or to find other ways of presenting it.
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