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Finding a Middle Point is a Starting Point
Collection:UAL Art Collection
Date: 2025
Artist: Seto, Sadaro
Dimensions:
5 books, each 21 x 16.5 x 1cm
Medium: Hanshi paper and G clamp
Object number: UAC 1182
DescriptionSadaro studied BA Graphic Communication Design at Central Saint Martins. He says, 'This project explores the shift from a vertical to a horizontal writing culture in
Japanese. This book, 'Rain、Moon。' is one output from this project.
Read from Left to Right; it’s in English. Read from Right to Left; it’s in Japanese.
This book tells one story in two languages about one person with two
perspectives. This book starts from the middle point.
Two languages meet at the middle point; this book is once bound in this format.
This book is then rebounded the other way around and inside out.
Thus, the middle point becomes the starting point'.
Japanese. This book, 'Rain、Moon。' is one output from this project.
Read from Left to Right; it’s in English. Read from Right to Left; it’s in Japanese.
This book tells one story in two languages about one person with two
perspectives. This book starts from the middle point.
Two languages meet at the middle point; this book is once bound in this format.
This book is then rebounded the other way around and inside out.
Thus, the middle point becomes the starting point'.