Unfolding
A pamphlet you have to take apart to read, built from a Bob Vylan song about cheap food and slave wages.
Make a folded pamphlet that carries the meaning of a song you've chosen, where the fold does the work rather than just holding the paper together.
The song is Bob Vylan's 'Health is Wealth' (2023): fast food, £2 chicken and chips, wages that don't stretch, a body treated as disposable. The line that gave me the format was 'body is a temple, not a tomb', because that's a structure that can be either one depending on how you go into it.
I worked it physically first. Weeks of folding blind, accordion pleats, arches, cut-out surfaces, before any type went near the paper, so the geometry came out of the material instead of a layout. The fold I ended up with makes a faceted, almost architectural shell. Closed it's a solid form, opened it flattens out into one sheet.
Then I set the type to survive being broken over those creases. Fragments like THE, KILLING, OF, KIDS and £2 CHICKEN & CHIPS sit on separate facets and rotate as you turn the paper, so the phrase builds and falls apart in your hands. The only thing that stays whole and flat is the black panel, HEALTH IS WEALTH. Be healthy, be alright. You get that line for free and have to work for everything around it.
A folded pamphlet, printed and hand-scored, that reads differently at every stage of opening.
