Personal paradigms: a game of human experience

Description:	Game components housed in 15.5 x 11.25 x 4.75 cloth-covered box. Includes a letterpress printed game board and a multitude of laser-cut game pieces. Game board opens to 21 x 30.This new bookwork by Julie Chen is by far the most ambitious and extravagant piece ever to be produced at Flying Fish Press. Personal Paradigms presents a truly interactive experience for the reader in the form of a game that is played and the results then recorded in a collaborative ledger book. The object of the game focuses on the players own life experience and perceptions at the moment that the game is being played.--Flying Fish PressThe object of this game is ... to have the player create a meaningful abstract composition on the game board based on the examination of one area of his or her life ... and to have the player participate in an ongoing collaborative documentary book project by recording his or her composition in the ledger book--Rules of Play.Contains in front drawers: 1 game board, 1 die, 1 spinner, 1 self-marker, 8 life markers, 18 marker shapes, 36 text strips, 2 plastic templates, 3 colored pencils, 15 metal arrowsfolders on inside of lid: 1 spinner and Rules of Play users guide.Issued in box with hinged lid, covered with gold/brown-tinged fabric lined with light golden satin.
Origin:	2003
Created By:	Chen, Julie
Publisher:	Berkeley, California : Flying Fish Press, 2003.
Source:	http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/BookArts/id/183
Collection:	Herron Library Fine Press and Book Arts Collection
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Copyright:	In Copyright
Subjects:	Chen, Julie Artists books--California--Berkeley. cloth-covered box, letterpress printed game board, laser-cut game pieces

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