Dawenhao Series Keycaps: Hesse | The Philosopher’s Key in the Wasteland
"Every self is a play performed by many imagined characters."
This set of keycaps is a collection of fragments I salvaged from the literary forest of Hermann Hesse, pieced together into a keyboard that lets you touch the realm of thought.
It is not gentle, but it is honest. Cold stone, aged copper, crazed glaze, parchment, mirrors, and glass beads—these materials collide on the keycaps, creating an irreconcilable sense of fragmentation, much like the characters in Hesse’s works: wandering