“A grief that felt awkward, as if I miscalculated the sorrow of losing someone genealogically close, like cynical aftershocks for the finitude of being.”

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Tokyo based author and painter Hiromi Nakajima, presents a new collection of writings on ethics and decision in the shadow of mortality, Green Face is a limited edition of 15 short stories and poems prompted by the sudden death of a distant Uncle.

 

The publication includes images rendered black and white as if drained of life, to hauntingly evoke a putrefying eroticism, these are not illustrations, any more than the text is intended to disclose private intimacies or summon an oracular spirit.

 

Set within an uncompromising urban landscape, Green Face explores the collision of words and pictures in rituals of passage, as if a shrine somewhere between what is seen yet beyond description. Narratives of ordinary moments like staring at the smudges on a bedroom ceiling, prosaic events that can easily fracture and open portals to eternity.

 

 

 

 

 

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