Sonder
[son-der]
noun:
the feeling one has on realizing that every other individual one sees has a life as full and real as one’s own, in which they are the central character and others, including oneself, have secondary or insignificant roles
A collaborative artist book created with 18 designers and artists inspired by Appalachian State’s Nature Preserve. A 67 acre home of safeguarded woodland protecting hundreds of native species and animals within Boone, North Carolina.
The writing within Sonder contains a narrative by utilizing a conversation between two voices. A collective voice of humans and an immaterial or ambiguous voice of the forest. Within the narrative, two voices discuss the relationship their lives have on one other.