Sound
Sound on！ Fuwen Redesigning
Done at Central Academy of Fine Arts
Mentored by Ziyuan Wang MarcoChen
Year 2022
Fuwen is a compound Chinese character found in classical texts, formed by combining repeated characters into a single structure. Inspired by this tradition, the project reinterprets the poetic and symbolic qualities of Chinese characters through repetition, structure, and recomposition.
In Chinese slang, “cutting leeks” describes repeatedly exploiting the same group of people for profit. To visualize this metaphor, I designed a new compound character composed of two “knife” characters above and the extracted structure of the character for “leek” below.
These three characters are derived from traditional Chinese solar terms: Rain, Frost, and Heavy Snow.
Original verse: 林下漏月光，疏疏如残雪。
Moonlight filters through the trees, scattered beneath the forest like lingering snow.
This typographic system is not limited to individual characters or words; it can also expand to sentences and poetry.
Original verse: 山中何事? 松花酿酒，春水煎茶。
This typographic system is not limited to individual characters or words; it can also expand to sentences and poetry.
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