Linna Xu

Linna Xu has some beautiful work in her folio.

I particularly love this three part booklet series that she created in response to a personal journey.

This project manifested itself in a three part series of booklets that detail the personal struggles that I faced after my parents’ divorce and how I came to overcome my personal barriers to realize the value of personal relationships. The entire book documents the three stages of my development: melancholy, uncertainty, and genuine happiness. The irregular page dimensions reflect the process of looking back and picking up elements of my life and stitching them together. Fragmented layouts within a loose grid reflect my disjointed and non-linear thought process. Similarly, although the overall order of the booklets is chronological, the order of events within them are not. This is to reflect the confusion that I experienced in my childhood. The last booklet is the most structured and ordered to show how I have come to better understand myself.