POOLEMS
POOLEMS, Poems for the Poolside, full colour / B5 / 26 pages / Printed at X-Graphics, Jakarta / on HANKUK Arte Natural White 105gsm / self published by Missing Sock Books
Created during a stay in Mallorca, this little document titled POOLEMS combines text and photographs to question themes of wealth, displacement, and the inherent alienation of the tourist experience.
Mallorca, an island of spectacular natural beauty, has become a playground for wealthy outsiders where locals can hardly afford to live.
These poetic meditations delve into personal anxieties, millennial aspirations, loneliness and the struggle to find meaning in a superficial world. Fundamentally, they comment on our failure to see that we are not separate from nature, but deeply interconnected with all living things.
diSRupT
DISRUPT full colour / B5 / 8 pages / Printed at X-Graphics,Jakarta / self published by Missing Sock Books
DISRUPT takes the form of a mock-azine, a single-issue publication dedicated to the promotion of Moke Koshiba, a fictional "in-between" character, my alter ego, and the author and protagonist of "In Between Experiences."
This one-off, designed to mimic a contemporary design and style magazine, is a conceptual gesture, a critique of the hurdles emerging artists face in establishing a presence within the art world where being seen on the right platforms is crucial to what is conventionally called ‘success’.