Book of the Secreted Image

A normal page of text in a book can not only be read, but also viewed, as the patterns of the words, and line breaks can form abstract images. For example if the white lines that run down the pages become distracting to the reader they are referred to in typographical terms as "rivers".

The idea of the Book of The Secreted Image is to take advantage of the subtle possibilities afforded by the capacity of the printed word to be viewed as both language and image simultaneously.

This won't be obvious to the reader on an individual page basis but any book printed in this way will contain within its pages a secreted image, that can only be viewed if the book is dismantled and the pages arranged together according a very specific order, like tiles on a wall.

When the assembled pages are observed from a distance, the subtle changes in weight of type, character and line spacing, become apparent. Previously undetectedable on each individual page, they combine, like a half-tone, to merge into that of a recognisable image.

Each Book printed in this way could be totally unique, given the capacity of modern digital presses. One picture is then in reality worth a hundred thousand words.