135 x 192mm / 76p / 26. Oct. 2022 / ISBN 9791188594221

"Like the person who saw the back of the stage, I lost interest in books."

There is a child who realized early on that the world has various aspects that cannot be expressed in one word or sentence. The child is also left alone after those who have left for their own reasons that cannot be simply explained. Wouldn't we all have been left like that at least once unintentionally?
Like any book that has forgotten the plot by covering it up while reading, the remaining beings are easily forgotten in our memory. As such,  remind me of the memories I forgot as if I were looking for a behind-the-scenes story.

"It was the same sentence, but at some point it felt like it was read differently."

Fortunately, the child left behind becomes the main character in the book and writes his own story. Even if there is no writer who writes the plot, or even if there is no reader who reads the text, they record their lives on their own and read them in a small voice.
 All we have to do now is remember the child's last page and look forward to the next one. Through this story, I hope that you will find the other side of the world as if you open the book deep in the bookcase again and discover beautiful sentences.

I think everyone sees the world with their own eyes and in the direction they want to see in their own context. So the way you look at the world is a process of understanding. But the world is not made up of planes, it's three-dimensional, it's variable, it's unpredictable. In this book, I tried to draw an individual who understood the multifaceted nature of these objects. The figure is confused when confronted with multifacetedness, and frustrated when it comes to the hopelessness that all perspectives exist individually and there is no correct answer. And it isolates itself into an environment where no perspective exists. But ironically, when you realize that even your life and your environment have various aspects and even that changes constantly, the speaker is free and able to find subjectivity only after escaping from physical and mental isolation. In this way, we tried to express the understanding of multifacetedness and the establishment of subjectivity.

Author, Illustrator · Sooji Han

I majored in illustration at Académie royale des Beaux-Arts, Belgium. I write and draw.