190215 – Textures – Tokyo, Japan.

Research project 3. How does one live in a true collage city where the ancient sits cheek by jowl next to the avant-garde, where a two storey bamboo hut sits next to a thirty storey glass sky scraper. Where history is constantly repackaged and re-themed to sell food or soap or love by the hour. The graphic novel and cinema-space become just as real as the high street. Virtual and real become indistinguishable further augmented by characters wrapped in fluorescent crinoline, carrying heart shaped bags and wearing rabbit ears. So mad I love this fiction. Was the Samurai in the noodle shop real?