This is a hypothetical future, an humans have colonized multiple worlds. But, as expected, it is quite less important the fictional premise of the technologies and cultures imagined than the mismatched encounter of the two protagonists and how the one feeds from the other. What is Left could be described as a science-fiction tale. Solely based on this image, I am reminded immediately of Masanobu Hiraoka’s short animation Land, which also explores what could be taken as the tagline to this small but powerful book: a descent into a shifting landscape made of memories and emotions. The title hovers above, as if materializing a question, the traces of its beginning in the multicolored blots below. Is she being engulfed by these objects into oblivion? Or is she trying to find protection amidst those debris? Around her head, brilliant and vibrantly colored, unidentified shapes seem to make up a sort of fluid aura. After identifying the female figure as such, atop the strange looking pile against an absolute black background, the mysterious protagonist shies away from us, and tries to disappear amidst the shapes around her, which mixes organic, artificial, machinic forms. The first thing that hits me is the absolutely lush, elegant cover.
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