Book from the Ground is an artwork and book published by MIT Press, which uses visual symbols collected over seven years, to tell a story in a visual language (Pictograph anyone can understand - mitpress.mit.edu 
Quote: Xu Bing
Twenty years ago I made Book from the Sky, a book of illegible Chinese characters that no one could read. Now I have created Book from the Ground, a book that anyone can read - mitpress.mit.edu
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Here is an image of the work exhibited in the studio.
Xu Bing, Book from the Ground, 2014; Mixed media; Dimensions variable; Collection of the artist - cafa.com.cn
Xu Bing’s narrative, using an exclusively visual language, could be published anywhere, without translation or explication.
In the book, the protaganist begins his day with wake-up calls from a nearby bird and his bedside alarm clock; it continues through tooth-brushing, coffee-making, TV-watching, and cat-feeding.
Book from the Ground is a readable story without words, an account of twenty-four hours in the life of “Mr. Black," - core77.com
He commutes to his job on the subway, works in his office, ponders various fast-food options for lunch, waits in line for the bathroom, daydreams, sends flowers, socializes after work, goes home, kills a mosquito, goes to bed, sleeps, and gets up the next morning to do it all over again.
About the Author
Xu Bing is an internationally acclaimed artist whose work has been shown and collected by museums and galleries including the National Art Museum of China; the British Museum; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Museum of Modern Art; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian Museum - wikipedia
He is a recipient of a MacArthur “genius” grant and is currently serving as Vice President of the Central Academy of Art, Beijing. Based in Beijing, he maintains a studio in Brooklyn.