How To Read

How To Read by Tiffany Wellington

How do we read? How do we read a moment? How does it interact with our memory? Is our memory within our flesh or our phone’s soft archive? Perhaps it is located on the stained white of a books page or the pointed ears, black serifs, and shoulders of the font printed over it? Or better, within our others, the people that we share our moments with. In this publication, reading is always about recognising that which is around you, both temporally and physically.

Reading is an arrangement. It is a continuing game, a shuffling of cards over and over again, an order never settled, never fixed. It is a postcard sent from a holiday, with a light melancholy, in heavy moments of car rides, shopping trips, tv shows. It is finding something once forgotten. There where we used to be. Within that slow crack of the past is also the hope of the future and the joy of the present.

To read is to find meaning. But meaning can shape shift, transforming within you. It is a flash of impermanence as those old dreams of yours, secret and hidden, suddenly become separate to you. Over 13 postcards curated as a non linear publication, Tiffany asks us to be vigilant in our living, while asking us, how do we read?

A6, 13 Postcards.
Printed in the UK.
2024