Mengruo Wang
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Artist Book / Hand-bound Book Object

皮相 / 笔象

Skin of Writing

2025–2026 / 32 × 16 cm

A hand-bound artist book built from ink, calligraphy practice paper, discarded fragments, and translucent layers.

Skin of Writing hand-bound book shown from an angled cover view.

Project

Skin of Writing

This book gathers the surfaces, corrections, pressures, and repetitions of writing practice into a hand-bound object. The page is treated as a skin: a place where gesture leaves evidence before language becomes fixed.

Year
2025–2026
Size
32 × 16 cm
Medium
Ink, calligraphy practice paper, handmade paper, calligraphy fragments, tracing paper, hand binding
Type
Artist book / hand-bound book object

01

Book Object

Skin of Writing book showing its hand-bound spine and cover.
Cover
Skin of Writing book showing layered pages from the side.
Spine
Skin of Writing book showing its thickness and page edges.
Thickness

02

Interior Sequence

Interior spread showing control marks and writing traces.
Control marks
Interior spread showing repeated calligraphic marks.
Calligraphy fragments
Interior spread showing dense black ink and character fragments.
Ink texture
Interior spread showing the relation between character and ink texture.
Character / texture
Interior detail showing translucent tracing paper over an inked page.
Tracing paper and writing

03

Detail

Close detail of layered pages and binding.
Binding
Close detail of translucent paper layers.
Paper layers
Close detail of the ink surface.
Ink surface

Documentation

Flip-through

PROCESS

Source materials for Skin of Writing.
Mark-making process for Skin of Writing.
Ink test for Skin of Writing.
Crumpled paper fragments from the process.
Editing and arrangement process for Skin of Writing.
Paper fragments from the process.