"The Universe Doesn't Know"
Photographs by Rie Suzuki

 
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Saddle-Stitched Softcover
10" x 7.63"
64 Pages
First Edition of 50
2025


Publisher Statement:

“The 8th title from photobook_daydream_editions and the 21st solo publication by Rie Suzuki was a total dream for me since I have been totally in love with Rie’s beautiful and singular work for over a decade. An elegant and off-kilter collection of photographs set to the sounds of piano bar jazz, new romantic, & space age pop.”


Artist Statement:

“言葉を使わずに語られる物語がある。

夢でもテレパシーでもないのに、その姿は星図のようにゆっくりと浮かび上がる。

緩やかな想像は、深い悲しみや静かな揺らぎに寄り添いながら、
私はその光のあいだを、踊るようにすり抜けていく。

美しいもの、そしてまだ名のない予感へ向かうまなざしが、
星の位置を静かに導いてくれる。

時間も場所も越えて、一つの星図が描かれた。

そこには、実家の花瓶も、都市の海の匂いも、旅先の短い滞在も、少し離れて暮らす友達の犬までもが、小さな光となって現れる。

互いの背景を知らなくても、ともに制作したアンドリューと私は、同じ星座を形づくった。

どこからでもつながり、軽やかに揺れる光の群れ。
こんな星図を描けるなんて、宇宙でさえまだ知らない。

There is a story told without words.

It is neither a dream nor telepathy, yet its form slowly emerges, like a star map.

Softly unfolding imaginings, quietly attending to deep sorrow and subtle tremors carry me as I slip through the spaces of light, dancing along their paths.

A gaze drawn toward beauty and toward inklings not yet named quietly guides the positions of the stars.

Across time and place, a single star map was drawn. Within it, the vase in my childhood home, the scent of the city’s sea, even brief stays during travels, and the dog of a friend who lives far away- all appear as tiny points of light.

Even without knowing each other’s pasts, Andrew and I formed the same constellations.

Light drifts and flickers, a floating cluster.

To be able to draw such a star map-the universe doesn’t know yet.”