Journey Through the Internal Landscape (accordion book)

The Journey through the internal landscape (or JTTIL) accordion book is made for the Waypost exhibition (May 2021). The artwork was originally conceptualised as four wordless comic strips laid out like a scroll and made into an “accordion comic book”. It was a response to Emily Koh’s short memoir Reconstructing Labrador Villa Road which is about her grandmother’s house, the land on which it sat and its eventual fate. In this series of comic strips, I illustrate a fantastical landscape of one’s inner world where enquiry is a quest through indescribably feelings and buried emotions. It is partly a loose interpretation of (what I read as) Koh’s feelings in her memoir and my own experiences and thoughts on untangling self-enquiries.

These accordion books were printed on 250gsm mixed-media paper with hand-crafted thick covers using various types of paper.