Lorem Ipsum,
where’s your daddy?
a book of nonsense
2021 | 130 pages | 110mm x 178mm x 15mm | Softcover, Swiss binding
Lorem Ipsum: meaningless filler text; a bastardisation of a dead language; pure shapes and letter forms. DNR: do not read.
Interested in this line between graphic and language, I used lorem ipsum as a basis for a book of Nonsense. Imagining it as a lost language of sorts not too untrue there, I ‘translate’, ‘write’, and shape lorem ipsum into a collection of texts.
Giving these texts serious graphic treatment, Lorem Ipsum, where’s your daddy? (2021) is a parodic and humorous insight into the role of graphic paratexts to shape, authorise, and give meaning to text.
Featuring: Lorem Ipsum poetry, Lorem Ipsum ‘translations’, lectures on Middle Ipsumarian Architecture, and Lorem is Waiting: a nonsense-absurdist play featuring the characters Moose, Meese, Goose, and Geese.