I wonder why people are attracted by the original autographs and handwritten lettersby novelists. Because we can probably feel more closer personalities of the writers, who have produced their handwritten words, by looking into the traces of their writings.
The words are results of their continuousness and the products of actions by instrumentslike pens and brushes, which are called “writings”,. However, by the advancement of many technologies, we tend to forget the words are produced from stream of thoughts and actions. And, the text could be easily taken and spread as superficial information, itself.
Nowadays, we see the much change of digital revolutions so, we’d rather bring electrical gadgets than handwritten tools. After all, as letters for information would be the same either by handwritten and or typed. But is it enough? That is the reason why I felt and looked into how writersproduce the wordings by their own writing characters.
I took my motif as well-known Japanese modern literatures and tried to reproduce the humanities of writers from their own handwritten words by using my three-dimensional visualizing method. Before these books are printed, authors’ handwritten manuscripts are traces of their actions which probably we can more closely feel their physical and psychological products among with their human characters and time passages for their works. When we look into their handwritten characters, we see strong and or faint of traces of inks and notice that the ideographs are made from numbers of lines.
By reading each of characters and reproduce in three-dimensional, we can imagine writers’ breaths and how each character is formed from lines. There is time passage like authors would add kana letters alongside Chinese characters and editors would put numbers for printings purpose.
We see the world there are the many layers of letters and phase in their handwritten manuscripts. We can encounter each authors’ struggling to produce their own works and their unconscious tendencies in handwritten manuscripts before printed.
I personally felt the necessity of three-dimensional visualizing by studying those writers and behind their products: how each human being is to struggle to achieve their completions by drawing each of lines. I wanted to try to reproduce how each of their characters grow without using conventional writing devices.
- Arai Minami

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