Cnocession

For the Souvenir Edition, produced in collaboration with designer Brice Delarue for the Zirkumflex platform, we explored how a book can become an explorer of memory, form, and material. The object is derived from the project Cnocession: letters traced from tombstones in the Castillon-la-Bataille cemetery, transformed into a graphic publication. With its 15 × 21 cm closed format (59.7 × 42 cm open), printed on 80 g/m² recycled paper and limited to 500 copies, the edition embodies a clear editorial stance. The graphic design (developed by Studio GUsto) plays on the duality between funerary gravity and typographic rebirth — staging engraved forms through layers, transparencies, and subtle contrasts. We sought to make the publication an active space: the reader is no longer a simple spectator but an explorer of printed signs. The use of typography sourced from a funerary context to create an “alphabet” questions the value of forms as a visual heritage. Thus, this edition reflects our approach — blending typography, photography, and editorial design to give material form to a visual narrative.