A re-imagined interpretation of William Faulkner's 1930 novel As I Lay Dying. The novel centers around the death of Addie Bundren, and her family's quest to honor her wish to be buried in her hometown. Each chapter is a stream-of-consciousness narrative that switches from fifteen different characters over the course of ninety-six chapters.

Faulkner's original story can be difficult to get through and understand at first. Though the Bundrens are a deceptively simple rural Mississippi family, they are both tragic and complex in their emotions and motives for honoring Addie's wish. What each character doesn't say often reveals much more than what they say outloud and to each other.

I wanted to change how one understood Faulkner's writing by approaching this book as a collection of found objects. I paired excerpts from each chapter in Faulkner's original order with an object or image that references in some way to the featured character's mood and persona. Each character is expressed with a different typeface in order to create a kind of immersive experience when reading each chapter. The final book was signature-bound by hand.