toutpetitlaplanete: Xu Bing - Book from the Sky [detail], circa 1987-91 “While the work is ins
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toutpetitlaplanete:Xu Bing - Book from the Sky [detail], circa 1987-91“While the work is inspired by the form and typography of traditional Chinese woodblock publications, faithfully replicating every stylistic detail of traditional Chinese printing, not a single one of its roughly 1,200 characters… is intelligible. Each of these imaginary characters conveys the appearance of legibility but remains defiantly undecipherable.” -- source link
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