A KOREAN NOTEBOOK

“Hello. You can accomplish as much as you think.”

Artist book designed as a spiral-bound notepad, containing two narrative layers: photographs taken in the business and shopping districts of Seoul are combined with short texts found on the cover pages of Korean notepads and exercise books – written in an incorrect and funny English. Oscillating between stimulation and reassurance, these veritable “truisms” hint at the pressure to perform and to succeed that may be put upon its potential readers “in private life and official time”, as one sentence has it. The publication invites you to a journey through Korean streetlife as well as through contemporary ethics of achievement and success. You can use it as a notebook too.

Spiral-bound notepad with 61 photographs and different texts, 26 x 19 cm, first edition self-published in winter 2015