Vendome | Kyoko Vendome | Michioto Publishing 2023 [SIGNED]

This volume is the latest published by Michioto Publishing, an interesting independent publisher based in the Kii Peninsula, Japan.

Kyoko Vendome's collection of woodblock prints open a window into a world where the presence of nature and deities are palpable.

From publisher's statement: "This is the first collection of works by Kyoko Vendome, a woodblock print artist based in a mountainside of Kumano. The works she carves out are filled with an excessively dense and bewitching atmosphere of mother nature. Its yokiness is an eroticism that unites with primordial nature, evoking the courageous power of destruction and rebirth that all living things have possessed. Her works may represent the gods that primitive people witnessed in ancient Kumano. The generous, humorous, undignified gods appear in their merry dance... “You there, do you want a big fortune?”"