For my final project, I want to take the idea that has basically shaped all my blog posts this semester “Books as spaces“ and turn it into something creative. For weeks, I have been thinking about pages as rooms, chapters as places we move through and reading as a kind of navigation. Now I want to make that idea visual and experiential.

A core part of the project will be a poem. I chose to write a poem because so much of what I have been doing in the blogs has been philosophical and reflective and poetry feels like the form that can hold that best. It lets me continue the same kind of thinking but in a more condensed, atmospheric way. Since all my weeks of writing have revolved around ideas, metaphors and spatial ways of reading, a poem feels like the most natural extension. The poem will describe a journey through different book-spaces, like stepping between pages, entering rooms made of margins. Each section will feel like its own room, matching the movement of the poem.

To go with it, I will create digital images where I place myself inside these imagined book-rooms. One example is the image I already made of myself inside Celestial Navigation. The other images will expand that idea. Maybe a hallway built from stacked lines of text, a room where furniture is shaped out of paragraphs, or a space that folds open as I move through it. These images won’t simply illustrate the poem. They will serve as visual versions of the rooms the poem moves through.

This project builds directly on everything I have written about. Carrión’s “sequence of spaces”, Mak’s trained boundaries of the page and Borsuk’s metaphors of the book as a body. My goal is to turn those concepts into something you can see and something you can feel.

In short, the poem will ask what it feels like to walk inside a book (metaphorically), while the images show what that journey might look and feel like. Together, they bring my semester-long theme to a creative end. Stepping into books, not just reading them.