The third instalment of Mike Slack’s series extends into Japan’s largest city – a vast megalopolis teeming with unexpected pockets of sensuality, humour, and quietude. Slack’s ambulation is objectively site-specific, yet oddly subjective, and the resulting images are at once formal and poetic. His playful renderings foreground the city’s palette of architectural eccentricities, graphic gestures, and cultural echoes as much as they dissolve them. Less a city guide than a pocket-sized psychic map, the book is an open proposition for gentle collisions in mind, body, and urban space. In Tokyo, we are coaxed to consider the liminal space between the contemplation and nonchalance.
