English Language Softcover Edition: 124 pages. 34 x 27 cm. Corners of covers slightly creased.
Michiko Kon: Still Lifes presents a unique artist's photographs of the impossible objects she has created in her studio. Kon skillfully creates a permanent record of impermanent objects: a garter belt fashioned from fish; a pair of melons covered with octopus tentacles; a mid-calf boot made of shrimp, among many other nondelectables. An exhibition toured worldwide.
Michiko Kon waits in a room with these objects, and as they release their spirits that room is taken into a territory where time is blurred. Although the real world is fixed and extended in this place the room becomes a world with a strange border, world that is in contact with another dimension. There, biology, astronomy, geometry, and music slowly blend together. In that room, Inorganic substances become living organisms, dissolution becomes integration, and death manages to make its way into life. And the deeper the extent of this infinity, the more thrilling the object becomes, and the more multidimensional the image becomes.
-Toshiharu Ito, from the book's essay
What Michiko Kon does with the natural and quotidian speaks volumes about life and death.
-Art in America