Based on the Venn diagram, I brainstormed the keyword “order” and categorised the results in the following directions:

In Methods of Translating, my understanding of order stopped at “reversing the order of the elements making up the image” – I reversed the physical position of the white and the image. 

This time, I attempted to consider further the significance of white within the image, focusing on the typically overlooked “white” space in the layout. This is different from white space. Based on Adobe’s workflow, we are used to thinking of white in layout as a void, as we think of grey grids as “transparency”. But why exactly do these grey grids represent transparency?

I selected 100 photos from my album. By overlaying them with white, I made them appear as the cover, flyleaf, first page, second page, third page… up to the hundredth page of a book. Without Adobe, I created this order in a more primitive way, sometimes to get rid of one system you have to use another.

White makes a book a book. These whites are exactly the difference between a photo and a spread, an album and a book.

High-quality pdf link & other photoes TBC

Special thanks:
Last few photoes provided by: Katie Zhang, Zihui Li, Qingyue Lyuqiu
White paint provided by: Xiaoyi Ni