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Dear Urs, I’m sorry for being late.
I just got an idea for the book.
Do you know the experience of falling asleep while you start reading a book?
Or, — I don’t know the precise words — a book that is sleeping on the bookshelf forever?
It means, you don’t read the book you bought. And the book is on the bookshelf forever.
I just want to make such a book.
Of course this book will also be going on the bookshelf to sleep there forever.
Most of pages are horizontal lines that represent texts that you really don’t understand or that are boring.

Masano Hirayama is a painter, drawer, and performer based in Tokyo. His works are filled with black lines which, despite their simplicity, stimulate our consciousness or recognition. Although his lines look like they are drawn with his intuition, he carefully draws the same image over and over again until his intention is eliminated and the line becomes an unconscious act. In this work in book form, widely spaced parallel horizontal lines span page after page, with occasionally a shorter line interjected among the overall sameness of repetition.

Book (9222)
Masano Hirayama
Rollo Press, 2022

ISBN 9783906213415
107 x 176 mm, 380pp