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Rie SuzukiThe Universe Doesn't Know

Photographs: Rie Suzuki

Publisher: Photodaydream editions

64 pages

Year: 2025

Price: € 30

Only 1 copy available

There is a story told without words.

It is neither a dream nor telepathy, yet its form slowly emerges, like a star map.

Softly unfolding imaginings, quietly attending to deep sorrow and subtle tremors carry me as I slip through the spaces of light, dancing along their paths.

A gaze drawn toward beauty and toward inklings not yet named quietly guides the positions of the stars.

Across time and place, a single star map was drawn. Within it, the vase in my childhood home, the scent of the city’s sea, even brief stays during travels, and the dog of a friend who lives far away- all appear as tiny points of light.

Even without knowing each other’s pasts, Andrew and I formed the same constellations.

Light drifts and flickers, a floating cluster.

To be able to draw such a star map-the universe doesn’t know yet.”

Artist Statement.

Staples softcover, 25,5 x 18cm, colors photographs. Limited edition of 50 copies.
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