The next stop for Response was Tokyo, Japan. "Another world." "Whether they are really busy or they are pretending to be busy, in anyway they look busy."
This bright, bilingual spread includes little pull-out papers tucked into envelopes. They say 'one more life' and 'have a cup of coffee'.
The next spread is marvelous, I don't know if it was two separate contributors or one person with two styles. On the left, the orange square has been pricked with a braille like text 'the world around (or ground?) me'. There is an origami elephant and a real maple leaf. On the right, the large patterned square has been printed straight onto the book's page, I'm not sure what technique, but its beautiful.
The next spread is made with multiple sheets of carbon and coloured tissue papers. There is a carbon tracing of Metro Lines in Seoul Metropolitan Area.
Leafing through the pages of carbon and tissue we find a pig (saying Hello from Seoul!) and another tiny subway map.
None of the contributors listed in the back of the book included a Japanese or Korean address, but I think at least one of these pages was made by Ping Ping Tung who is based in Australia. If you made these pages or think you know who did, please contact me!
This is the most exciting section of the book for me, because I just don't know who contributed these pages. The book just went off on an Asian adventure and came back with subtle mysteries tucked into its pages.
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