A double visual ‘code’ carried through the series and gave it coherence.
Firstly, each of the five was aligned to one of our human senses.
As you can see in the first post above, alongside connected images of the body the front cover compositions made use of falling stacks of words or phrases that came from the US trips, also tied to that sense (sight, sound, taste etc.), while back covers carried quotes that felt apposite, one example – from Volume 5 – being Aldous Huxley’s:
‘Every man’s memory is his private literature.’
Secondly, on opening a volume the reader finds it carries a theme;
learning, identity, Smith, place and self, respectively.
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