ZACK MITCHELL

This project stems from my fascination with decay. There is a certain allure to evanescence that draws me to it. Decay is both aggressive yet subtle. If left to its own device it can metastasize and eventually engulf the world as we know it. This attraction could be ascribed to my growing up in Los Angeles—a city of plastic faces, an attempt to preserve one's youth. But in the end, time will pervade and take creation with it. To bring decay into the book, I deconstructed the structure of the text and images. As the reader goes through the book, leading will start changing, kerning will begin to break down, and images and even words and sentences will bleed of the page. An added touch was to change the color of every time the word “decay” was in the text, and any time the word “life” was seen, it would appear misprinted or blurry.