The book is in my hands
Where is the story?
It's on a different level from books

Kadokawa Bunko"Songs of the Heartless, Songs of the Heartful - The Poems of William Blake"(Translated by Toshitake Bunsho)Chimney Sweep Boy"The pages were cut up and randomly pasted together with glue, without missing a single letter.Perhaps due to the effect of layering glue, the edges are curved like a sake cup.

The material used was Songs of Innocence and of Experience, published in 1999. The first edition was published in England in 1794 as Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Songs of Innocence and of Experience has the subtitle "Shewing the Two Contrary Sates of the Human Soul," and William Blake, who was an active copperplate engraver, hand-painted and colored illustrations for each poem.

"The Chimney Sweeper" is set in a time when the author Blake lived, when child labor was widespread around the world and chimney sweeping was a hotbed of small children. In a dream, many chimney sweep boys are led by an angel to play in the fields and the air. The final scene of a bottomlessly cheerful story is included as a verse of a song of innocence, which is typical of Blake.

Koizumi Aya has been cutting and pasting the words of various books (stories) and pursuing their quantity and location, but this time he has tackled "figures" for the first time. The colored figures give the work a new melody. The story is dismantled, and the individual pieces that become the words are pasted together in a way that creates as little meaning as possible, and in the process, the words and figures of the work are interwoven together. It is no coincidence that the blank space from the book is like a window frame, and each piece of the words and figures spilling out of the window feels like the prayers of chimney sweep boys.

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