How to Make a Self-Portrait With Rocks Social Topics a mother’s diary on daughter’s

a mother’s diary on daughter’s beloved cat

Year of publication: 2019

fundamentally unknowable but fundamentally alive

日本文学界奇才、“妖怪作家”梦野久作代表作。

and reflections on lived experiences

How to Make a Self-Portrait With Rocks Social Topics a mother’s diary on daughter’s"How to Make a Self Portrait With Rocks" is a lyric instruction manual that dissolves the boundary between body and landscape, self and sediment. Both intimate and geological in scale, this work reimagines the self portrait as an encounter with matter, duration, and the limits of recognition. Pairing Sara Elkamels spare, incantatory poetry with Dima Tannirs stark, tactile rock images, the zine stages self portraiture as a process of excavation rather