Reading as a form of interpretation builds up the resonance between, the individual and the text, the inner thoughts and emotional activities; normally it does not have a tangible form. This work aims to visualize the interaction between readers and texts. This work corresponds readers and text into different materials. Based on different types of annotations, a series of geometric shapes are produced. This series of works aim to convert textual interpretation into geometric shapes, providing us more visual possibilities of intangible behaviour.
"Talking" with the author
When readers address books as personifications of their author, and call them "YOU", readers imagine they "speaking" to the author by annotation. Of course there is no real conversation. Since the author will not answer back. So it is a "blocked conversation".
Altering the text
All reading that is subject to the structure imposed by the text, it needs and repsects it, but it also alters it. Every note entails a degree of self-assertion. Annotators like to declare themselves independent of the text.
Annotation for further readers
When the reader leaves traces in the book, the communication between reader and text necessarily involves not only their two speaking parts but also the silent audience that will sooner or later witness the communication. As physical objects, books are likely to outlive their owners and therefore provide an opportunity for communication between owners and further readers.
Interpretation overlap
Levels of engagement and concentration change when circumstances change. The reading may be rereading, and marginalia may be written on different occasions for different purposes.