Already Written is an artist book that places the human body and the natural world in close visual relation through black-and-white photography, rubbings, thread, and collected materials. Drawing from my interest in Xiao Liu Ren as a hidden structure rather than a literal subject, the work understands the body as something already marked, already patterned, and waiting to be read.
Across the book, skin, bark, veins, roots, folds, and branches begin to echo one another, until the boundary between body and nature slowly starts to dissolve.