OXFAM INSPIRATION

While loitering around Chiswick admiring the monopoly of middle-class brasseries I found this little gem of a book in Oxfam 'Japanese photography and its origin'- now, maybe its like the Collins dictionary version for people who already know anything about it, but I was OH SO VERY inspired by Tomiyasu Shiraiwa's 'Mirror' works. Co- incidentally I ended up selling a Stephen Gill photography book online, and it turned out the photographer I sold it to shares my interest in Buckminster Fuller, futuristic design and knows all about Japanese photography!







I don't know what it is about books right now but ever since I had a dream about the thin A4 hand-bound perfect book/magazine I see them in a different way... as though I am going to find it amidst a sequence of fateful events that will change my life forever...
In my dream I was in a tiny all-white box-room and searching for this book, of which there was only one.. with black screen printing on ivory handmade paper (the smooth kind) there were at least 5 essays inside which i knew were essential for me to read for my future... but the book was so expensive i couldn't touch it, someone was watching me and I knew that as soon as I touched it would have to buy it. Surrounding this particular event I was bound to revisit and revisit again an old friend of mine who had take to wearing aubergine cardigans and had lots all the emotion from her eyes... she was not sad, just empty.



Wow, actually in retrospect.. it was a pretty dark dream.. but its an old one anyway.
More recently, (last night) I had a stressful time as a man posing as a respected scientist, in order to avoid being murdered by an older woman, I had to pose as a visiting researcher but I didn't understand the science 'in jokes' I tried in a half-height box toilet which had dangerously unlockable windows which was in the middle of the room. I had upset this woman because her dog had literally clamped its jaws onto my face. I was terrified before it bit me- but as soon as it happened I grabbed its mouth and held it away, shouting at the woman 'I COULD HAVE BEEN A BABY'! From this moment I was being chased as the women woud rather I die than except that her dog was evil... but i felt as though the whole time i had been trying to save someone else.
At one point I had to jump from the window of the science lab into a river with a heavy current.
I dived and swam so far under water i reached a maze- like a warehouse but under the sea... it was a green kind of grey and very peacful.



ANYWAY,
I WAS EXCITED TO COME ACROSS (IN THE OXFAM BOOK) CULT ARTIST OF THE 60'S & 70'S SHUJI TERAYAMA- WHO I GUESS MUST BE SUPER FAMOUS IN JAPAN- AND NOW AM ON THE HUNT TO FIND THE FILM 'THROW AWAY YOUR BOOKS, RALLY IN THE STREET' AS IT LOOKS LIKE MY UP OF CHAI
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THROW AWAY YOUR BOOKS, RALLY IN THE STREET