The pleasure of publishing a Goffstein picture book is the pleasure of putting out a BOX set. Every time I put out a picture book, I made a BOX. This BOX set is included in the unpublished work collection, "Speak with the doll" (original title: CONVERSATIONS OF A Doll). This can be purchased only with a BOX set, so those who already have "Okanago Rice" have to buy a BOX set to get "Speak with a doll". sorry. However, "Ochane Rice" is a very good book that the rumor called the rumor and reprinted it immediately, so I would be pleased to give it to a friend, and I would like to propose another one for permanent storage.
Then, about the unpublished work collection "Speak with the doll".
First of all, I would like you to read the sentence that my husband, David, wrote the memories of this time.
Read the memories of "Osaka rice"
According to the report, "Speaking with a doll" was created by Goffstein, which was aiming for a new expression with photos and wood carving dolls, and in the process of the experiment, she decided that she would draw with a picture. I got it in the warehouse. But she continued to be motivated to make a book using photos for a lifetime, and this book was the first full -fledged attempt. The publishing was completely conscious and even a handmade dummy book was made, and this "Talk to the doll" was reproduced, and the texture of the text pasted with glue was left as it was. Despite the project that the author has finally let go, as Debit says, you can touch the deep part of the Goffstein creation. Often, unpublished works are glimpsed by the creator's intentions and the process of fighting. In that sense, I'm not interested.
The text of this book is written in a poem -like style and is more inner text than the usual Goffstein. "Speaking with a doll" made by photos and poetry reminds Goffstein writer that there is a strong contemporary art aspect. She must have been active in the field of contemporary art now. Perhaps contemporary art may have made her a little easier, who had been struggling without getting tired of the expression of a picture book. This book reminds me that she is too different from other picture book writers.
The original "CONVERSATIONS OF A DOLL" contains three stories, but this time, two works such as the variation of "Ochane Rice" are included. In the first story, "Natural Doll", the protagonist is a wooden doll and enjoys the comfort of living alone with his favorite furniture and his dog, but he wants to leave there and live outdoors. Live while feeling the changing season in nature. If you let go of a modern convenient life, you can find real comfort. If you lie down on the ground and put a stone as a pillow, you should be much more excited than a shaking chair. But I'm a wooden wood, and it's more painful to be able to take a dog.
The ideal of this story continues to wander the fantasy, but in the daily life of a grandmother in Osakana rice, there is an ideal that can be practiced. Grandma lives comfortably between the two inside and outside the world. Grandma discovered the comfort of living in nature for a long time. "Natural Doll" is like a grandmother in "Osakana Rice" in a dream as a child.
Goffstein may have been longing for living alone. Or, I think she was always alive alone. Either way, I was always conscious of being alone. One of the basses with two or more people in Goffstein's work is that there is only one person. One person is connected. It has no relation to loneliness or alienation, which is equally caught as "natural nature." Nature is lonely and connected to everything. Being lonely, that is, being alone is the condition for being free in the first place.
Another story, Happy Doll, is my ship's experience report on board. It mutters how spiritual and special experiences on a boat. The reader will soon recall the grandmother who rows a boat in "Osaka Rice". The feeling that grandma is on the water for a day is coined with what is written here. How do you heal your body on the water, how sound, shaking and air are realized that humans are part of natural materials? A floating hometown that connects us when death, universe and amniotic floating floating. And how is it connected to the happiness itself? "Happy Doll" is a dream that grandmothers of "Osaka rice" still see.
The two stories of "Speaking with Dolls" seem to be a deep memory that is deep in all works of Gofstein, as it exists like the background of creating "Osaka rice".
MS (tonkachi)
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