SHIZEN
Toru Morimoto
2020
Once again we go back to the East, to Japan. This time our research leads us to deepen the relationships of this culture with Nature: relationships that seem ambivalent and contradictory to us. It is adored, mythologized and at the same time sacrificed and violated to the needs of the user and cementing. SHIZEN (Nature) is a book that remains suspended between the branches of its veils, its light papers, traditional and fleeting panoramas that run between the fingers of the reader like a silk thread.
Photos by Toru Morimoto
Project and handcrafted realisation by Origini edizioni
Text by Matilde Vittoria Laricchia
English translations by Massimiliano Barachini
150 copies numbered and signed
Languages: Italian and English.
TRADE EDITION
130 copies numbered and signed by the author
15 photos in b/w, 36 pages
closed book dimensions 45x24cm
alternation of different papers: gold tissue paper, parchment style paper semi-transparent, transparent white paper Transwhite Thieberge & Comar 90 gr, Ivory Cambridge Library Pigna 70 gr.
Binding: Machine sewn in black
1 essay text + English translation
The book is spread out on a Finnish wood fiber cardboard and all is wrapped in Ivory tissue paper.
COLLECTORS EDITION
20 copies only: numbered and signed by the author
8 photos in b/w finished in gold paint, 20 pages
Spread out book dimensions: 76x29cm
alternation of different papers: old tissue paper, transparent white paper Transwhite Thieberge & Comar 90 gr, Ivory Cambridge Library Pigna 70 gr.
Binding: Machine sewn in black
1 essay text + English translation
1 ink-jet b/w print on japanese paper, numbered and signed by the photographer in 20 specimens.
Print dimensions: 29,5x21cm
The book is a scroll (kakejiku) rolled together with the print in a cardboard tube (37 cm high. Diameter: 12 cm) .
