x elements | Seido Kino | Aka Aka 2024

x elements | Seido Kino | Aka Aka 2024"Although I had no relation at all to Shimane, my interest in the ancient technique of Tatara smelting brought me here. The process of pouring iron sand and charcoal into a furnace to produce Tamahagane (precious steel), the material used in making Japanese swords, was a perfect example of the workings of people and forests. I wanted to learn in what form this activity survives in the Unnan and Okuizumo regions today. I had the opportunity to attend a

Light old book odour

Ari Marcopoulos’s photographs exhibit a similar reciprocal dynamic

The photographs in that box were made by her grandmother twenty-five years prior

softcover with dustjacket

bilingual explanatory leaflet and three prints stamped by the author on the reverse

Oblong 4to

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Hamada is a celebrated Japanese photographer who acknowledges Akiyama's influence on his works

almost unreal universe

and hope is eternal

There are stains on the edges of the pages (see phtoto)

There might be light yellowing around white pages edges