Coco Capitan continues her exploration of writing as a vital gesture. Words on Paper brings together her ironic and intimate aphorisms — delicate fragments of fleeting thoughts.

Words on Paper presents itself as the follow-up to If You’ve Seen It All, Close Your Eyes (2019). This new book brings together Coco Capitán’s recent notes, still tinged with irony and sometimes accompanied by sketches. Every day, she records her words, moods, questions, and impressions on a variety of surfaces, with an almost compulsive spontaneity.

Caught in the moment or crafted as true poems, her aphorisms appear as well on a green-checked napkin as on the pristine page of a notebook. The words are scribbled, crossed out, circled, underlined, and sometimes accompanied by a date or heading, revealing the time and place of their creation.

Unlike If You’ve Seen It All, Close Your Eyes, Words on Paper includes full-colour pages showing the original surfaces from which these writings emerged, offering the reader an immersive glimpse into the artist’s creative process.