Abook721, a site where artist books and structures tell stories in the digital age.

As a linguist, I have a passion for languages, discourse, and great curiosity on the use of storytelling to construct narratives about ourselves, our societies and our lives.

As an artist book maker, I’m equally fascinated by the storytelling and structures that such books provide to illustrate, communicate or entertain.

The themes I explore in my artist books and often in my thinking revolve around themes of identities, storytelling, social structures, discourse and “otherness”

This website. Abook721, is dedicated to the exploration of these themes as an ongoing project, some sort of journal of storytelling and my personal brand of adventures in the land of the mind.

Blog

• Identity & Family
  This has been a very lengthy project where I learnt so much about skills and concepts to create artist books. The main challenge has been how to present and illustrate notions of identity born out of our family’s experiences… Read more: Identity & Family
• Wonder and Wander in Artist Book Land
  My mind wanders and many times I find myself going back to this idea of structures. Structures of thoughts and structures of artist books. The challenge remains the same: how to use a physical structure to illustrate a concept… Read more: Wonder and Wander in Artist Book Land