Mysterious and mystical, this wordless, black-and-white publication features spacious illustrations of sprawling terrains that seem both extraterrestrial and futuristic. Unpopulated and austere, the tilted grounds of this open-air, landscaped museum serve as the setting for impersonal architecture, rich gradients, spectral lighting and shadows, and clusters of finely shaded geometric shapes reminiscent of yarn balls, conveyor belt cuisine, soupy udon, and congealed rivers.
The constructions in these imposing, dispassionate dreamscapes seem to defy time and gravity in their slow-motion movement — even the fluffs of light, resembling pollen in their easy levitation, seem to possess a weighted solemnity. In its delineation of a deserted sublime, this offset-printed, staple-bound publication displays a sensitivity to the enigma in the familiar and seems to unite the vaguely ominous metaphysical paintings of Giorgio de Chirico, the detachment of geometric abstraction, and the aseptic sci-fi settings of Osamu Tezuka.