Thank You, Everything
Icinori build a picture book from gratitude for rain, bread and worn-out tools, drawing on the Japanese belief that objects acquire a spirit after a century of service.
Mayumi Otero and Raphael Urwiller, working together as Icinori, build a picture book out of gratitude for the ordinary: rain, bread, a passing animal, a tool that has done its work. The illustration is dense and saturated, and the premise draws on the Japanese notion that objects acquire a spirit after a century of service. A children’s book in format, a corrective to inattention in effect.
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Maria Popova
Artist couple Mayumi Otero and Raphael Urwiller, who work together under the pen name Icinori, offer a vibrant invitation to this countercultural way of seeing in Thank You, Everything (public library) — a meditative yet exuberant journey through the world within and the world without, inspired by the Japanese notion of tsuumogami: the soul, or spirit, that inanimate objects are believed to acquire after being of service in the world for a hundred years.
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