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Translating 1

The material I translated is Mikiya Takimoto’s Grain of Light, a photographic book about the sea.

Grain of Light, Mikiya Takimoto

Method 1 Extrapolating

I have attempted to translate the typesetting process of Grain of Light by extrapolating.

As I began to extrapolate how the pages were laid out, I realised that I could get the same result in different ways, by these questions:

  1. Which is the background?
  2. Which is the content?
  3. Which part is above which?
Pages from the original book
Many similar parts in these two pages made me wonder if they were the same picture, but cut up in some specific way, such as making the white above the image.
Connecting two images by PS’s Generative Fill
White above the pictures
Pictures above the white

Method 2 Materialisation

Photography translates a real sea into a picture. I try to reduce the sea to an object through a picture.

Method 3 Hybridizing

Mikiya Takimoto uses a trapezoid-like overhead perspective to shoot the sea in this book. In this perspective, the waves are intertwined like threads, reminding me of a similar method in A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains.