Red String (ONLY 35 COPIES)
.jpg)
Yoshikatsu Fujii
Red String (ONLY 35 COPIES)
Photographs: Yoshikatsu Fujii
Text: Yoshikatsu Fujii
Publisher: Reminders project
70 pages
Year: 2014
Comments: Handmade book. Softcover, 225 x 165 mm. First edition, 2014. There are two kinds of front cover images : Japanese wedding dress (ed.1-15) and Western wedding dress (ed.16-35). Text in japanese and in english. Design by Yoshikatsu Fujii, Yumi Goto and Jan Rosseel. Edition limited to 35 copies, numbered and signed. In very good condition.
I received a text message. "Today, our divorce was finalized." The message from my mother was written simply, even though she usually sends me messages with many pictures and symbols.
I remember that I didn't feel any particular emotion, except that the time had come.
Because my parents continued to live apart in the same house for a long time, their relationship gently came to an end over the years. It was no wonder that a draft blowing between the two could completely break the family at any time.
In Japan, legend has it that a man and woman who are predestined to meet have been tied at the little finger by an invisible red string since the time they were born.
Unfortunately, the red string tying my parents undone, broke, or perhaps was never even tied to begin with. But if the two had never met, I would never have been born into this world. If anything, you might say that there is an unbreakable red string of fate between parent and child.
Before long, I found myself thinking about the relationship between my parents. How many days could I see my parents living far away? What if I couldn't see them anymore? Since I couldn't help feeling extremely anxious about it, I was driven to visit my parents' house many times.
Every day I engage in awkward conversation with my parents, as if in a scene in their daily lives. I adapt myself to them, and they shift their attitude toward me. We do not give way entirely to the other side, but rather meet halfway.
Indeed family problems remain unresolved, although sometimes we tell allegorical stories and share feelings. It means a lot to us that our perspectives have changed with communication.
My family will probably never be all together again. But I feel without a doubt that there is proof inside of each of us that we once lived together. To ensure that the red string that ties my family together does not come undone, I want to reel it in and tie it tight.
Yoshikatsu Fujii
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
more books by Yoshikatsu Fujii
-
Hiroshima Graph : Rabbits abandon their children (ONLY 72 COPI...
by Yoshikatsu Fujii
sold -
Hiroshima Graph - Everlasting Flow (Ltd edition of 75)
by Yoshikatsu Fujii
sold
more books tagged »jan rosseel« | >> see all
more books tagged »japanese« | >> see all
more books tagged »signed« | >> see all
-
-
Snowflakes Dog Man (Regular edition Signed)
by Hajime Kimura
sold -
One Picture Book # 12 : Alders (SIGNED WITH A PRINT)
by Robert Adams
sold -
The Afronauts (ONLY 50 COPIES WITH PRINT)
by Cristina de Middel
sold -
-
more books tagged »handmade« | >> see all
-
-
PROBLEMS PROBLEMS PROBLEMS... SOLUTION (EDT of 25)!
by Charlie Tallott
sold -
-
Bones apart (GREY EDITION, ARTIST'S EDITON 2/3)
by Olivier Pin-Fat
Euro 2500 -
-
more books tagged »out of print « | >> see all
-
-
SET OF LINGER (SIGNED) + TEIKAI + IMMERSE (SIGNED)
by Daisuke Yokota
Euro 750 -
-
CAN’T PAY YOU TO DISAPPEAR (ONLY 200 COPIES)
by Thomas Vandenberghe
sold -
-
more books tagged »limited edition« | >> see all
more books tagged »yumi goto« | >> see all
more books tagged »extremely limited« | >> see all
-
-
-
NOT ANOTHER ROTTEN PUNK BOOKS (EDT OF 25)
by Matt Plezier
sold -
Tsugi no yoru e / On to the next night (Signed)
by Yusuke Yamatani
sold -
-
Black market (ONLY 100 COPIES - SIGNED)
by Oliver Chanarin & Adam Broomberg
sold
more books tagged »reminders project« | >> see all
-
-
-
Hodophylax (ONLY 111 COPIES - SIGNED)
by Michiko Hayashi
sold -
Recruit (Handmade book ltd edt 147 copies signed)
by Hiroshi Okamoto
sold -
Tokyo Perspective (ONLY 50 COPIES - SIGNED)
by Kazuya Urakawa
sold -
Recruit (Handmade book ltd edt 147 copies signed)
by Hiroshi Okamoto
sold
Books from the Virtual Bookshelf josefchladek.com