︎art grows roots︎art heals roots︎art soothes roots︎art untangles roots︎art cuts roots︎art reveals roots︎art nourishes roots︎art transforms roots︎art celebrates roots︎art shocks roots︎art touches roots︎art strengthens roots︎art honours roots︎art connects roots ︎art reclaims roots
Mirai Nemoto Nilsson ︎ Artist ︎ m.nemotonilsson@gmail.com ︎ Gothenburg (SE)
おばあちゃん (GRANDMA), 2023
おばあちゃん (Grandma) is a zine which personally explores visual ways to overcome a Japanese-English language barrier between an artist living in Sweden and her grandmother living in Japan. The zine contains digital photographs of flowers taken from a smartphone camera by the artist's grandmother where she documents her daily-life in Japan. In one spread in the zine, the artist's grandmother captures a sunflower field located in a town in Miyagi prefecture. The sunflowers were planted by local farmers and volunteers with the purpose of soothing one's soul. As the creative making process unfolded, the zine manifested itself into a visual narration of a garden; as a kind of soft landing place, symbolising care and resilience. The photographs in the zine were then digitally edited in a collage-like manner and it includes the artist's analogue watercolour drawings as a way of bridging their intergenerational bond.
32 pages, Hand sewn with brown thread.
14 x 19.5 cm.
10 editions.
Materials: Digitally edited photos and scans of analogue watercolour drawings.
This zine was exhibited at Galleri Box, June 16-20, 2023.
Curated by Take 10 Press.
