Printed texts and Lightjet photographs mounted on aluminium: texts each 20 x 29cm; photographs each 100 x 140cm: Edition of 5
Artist’s book: full colour: 34 pp: London, Juice Publishing: Edition of 50
‘Thank you for the postcard!
Which side told the truth?
The words you wrote about each scene
or the picture used as ‘proof?’
A portmanteau of photographs, poems, dialogues, a crime report and fictional love letters, each authored by a cast of imagined characters. Hokkaido, Japan’s Northernmost prefecture, remains unvisited by most by these inhabitants of Kyoto, Tokyo and the American Mid West. But one fractious exchange between a widower and his recently deceased wife suggests Hokkaido might not be the romantic idyll the other characters imagine it to be…