Visual Repairment
Published by UsByUs
Size: 8 × 10 in

Reading theory has always felt slightly incomplete to me, like listening to a record through one speaker. The words land, but they don’t always stay. Over time, I realized retention happens more reliably when reading is paired with making—when visual responses are allowed to argue with, echo, or interrupt the text.

Visual Repairment grew out of that impulse. The publication gathers a series of posters produced alongside written material, not as illustrations but as parallel thinking. The visuals don’t explain the text; they metabolize it. Each spread becomes a small act of repair, stitching image and language together to form something more durable than either could manage on its own.

The result is less an archive and more a working document—a record of learning through translation. Theory comes in, form comes out, and somewhere in the middle the ideas stick.



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