The Weather

Townes van Zandt died of organ failure in the early morning of New Year’s Day, 1997, in Smyrna, Tennessee. The maximum temperature was 7 degrees Celsius. The minimum was zero.

Yukio Mishima died on November 25, 1970, in Tokyo, after performing an ill-executed seppuku. That evening, the national newspaper Asahi Shimbun carried a photograph of his severed head on the cover. The lowest temperature was 5 degrees Celsius.

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The Weather is a collection of obituaries of artists, writers, and musicians, combined with the weather report of the day they died. Among the people in this book are Ernest Hemingway, Bas Jan Ader, On Kawara, Sylvia Plath, Robert Walser, Marguerite Yourcenar, Billie Holiday, Curtis Mayfield, Gil Scott-Heron and others.

This book is the extended and revised version of a booklet with the same title that was published in 2019, and which is now out of print.

The Weather 
Martijn in ‘t Veld

Happy Potato Press, 2022

130 x 200 mm, 64pp; English
offset print on Munken Pure paper Softcover binding
Edition of 750
ISBN: 978-90-830161-5-3

The Weather (KR)
Martijn in ‘t Veld

Happy Potato Press & ENKR, 2022

130 x 200 mm, 64pp; Korean 
offset print on Munken Pure paper Softcover binding
Edition of 250