Radical 9:
2025
Artist’s book

- 10.5 x 15 cm
- 152 pages
- Hand-bound with exposed spine (Steifbroschur)
- 80 pages with perforation
- Traditional Chinese, English
- Published in 2025
- Limited edition of 5 copies


This artist’s book began with my project Radical 9, which invited participants to write a character containing the “human radical” (人部).

The “human radical” is a component within the dictionary tradition of Chinese character classification, resembling a standing figure and often associated with ideas like humanity and action. Its mirrored strokes on the left and right suggest a point of divergence, a form shaped through variation and ongoing difference.

Included here are 160 (pseudo) human radical characters contributed by different participants, forming an open system that echoes the structure of the human radical itself. Writing, in this context, is not merely transcription, but a kind of resonance, a way to search, to respond, and to reconsider how writing takes shape and how memory unfolds.

The book moves through acts of gathering, reflection, and response to both everyday landscapes and constructed signs. It continues the interactive practices from past exhibitions, compiling materials from the process — dias, text fragments, and writing traces — and reworking them into a new arrangement. It becomes a space for experimenting with form and extending thought.

Rather than a fixed collection, this is an invitation to write, reflect, drift, and assemble together.