This is the second story of anthology series “A song from the laundry room” which is titled “The scene on the wall”.
This story structures with 9 images records that its whole way to reach the particular view which is on the wall in my room as the poster.

My partner Seiko lived in Copenhagen and I visited her in late summer 2019, it was right after I got panic attacked. I took a break from everything and travelled that is meant to be healing journey. Seiko bought a bicycle for me before I arrived. Thus we could bike everywhere.

It was on foggy Monday at the late August, weather wasn’t hot as I expected for the season “summer” in general. She didn’t tell me where we go, She just told me “Let’s bike to my favorite suburb in town.” We rode bicycle to up north of Copenhagen, suburb called klampenborg. Well known for a cluster of building project by Denish Modernism Architect Arne Jacobsen.

I didn't know much about it then and now. Whatever the reason, we made it to the view. Like serendipity, it was. I found myself in the scene I had seen in my room.
Afterwards, I read an article like “Since when travel is becoming like confirmation process?“. It is so? mine definitely wasn't.

短編アンソロジーのシリーズ「A song from the laundry room」二作目のストーリーのタイトルは「The scene on the wall」です。

東京のぼくの部屋には、実家から持ってきた一枚のポスターがあった。ぼくは、それを毎日眺めていた。
車、タイヤの跡、建物、ビーチ、空、対して語るに足りないものばかりが写った一枚の写真のポスターだ。

2019年の夏、ぼくはパニック障害になり、何もかもを一度放棄し、彼女の住むCopenhagenを訪れた。彼女は、ぼくのための自転車を買っておいてくれた。そして、その自転車にまたがり、ぼくたちは日帰り旅行へ出かけた。それは、彼女なりのおもてなしの意味を込めたヒーリングトリップだった。
8月の終わりの霧深い月曜日、いわゆる「夏」とは程遠いような気温だった。そんな日に、彼女はぼくに行き先も告げず、とにかく北にあるお気に入りのビーチへ行こうとだけ告げた。

どうやって行ったかはその時も、今もよくわからない。それは一種のセレンディピティようなもので、気付けばぼくは家の壁にあったはずのずっと眺めていた風景の中に立っていた。




Photobook 'The scene on the wall'
”A song from the laundry room” #2
The scene on the wall, 2023
20 x 23 cm
24 pages
9 color plates
Softcover
Edition 25 + 2 A.P
Printed in Kyoto, Japan

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Numbered and signed original photograph from The scene on my Wall are available at Librairie Yvon Lambert Paris.

A song from the laundry room

“A song from the laundry room” is my latest anthology short story series which seems it doesn’t make any sense for someone else. However, I personally have it as a small treasure of my life.
The title of the series “A song from the laundry room” is named after the sentence from Brazilian author Clarice Lispector’s novel.

Story #1 A memory is something you have or something you have lost, published in Nov 2022
Story #2 The scene on the wall, published in May 2023
Story #3 The elderly couple, some boats, waiting for sun comes out, published in October 2023
Story #4 Ode to Autumn, published in October 2023