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memorandom by Sayaka Maruyama
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Edition: 666
Feature Theme: Dream—Sleep Issue
The inaugural issue, konomad journal N°0: Dream—Sleep Issue, is a concept-driven visual book created in collaboration with 66 artists who inspired konomad, centered around the theme “The Forest of Dreams and Sleep.” This issue began with editor-in-chief Tomohiro Kono’s deep interest in the realms of sleep and dreams. Each artist interprets the theme from their own unique perspective, weaving together a collection of fantastical, dreamlike worlds. These parallel visions converge to form a richly imagined "forest of dreams" within the pages of the book.
In addition to the visual works, the journal features Q&A-style interviews exploring the artists’ personal stories and reflections related to sleep, dreams, and their creative routines. To coincide with the launch of this issue, we will host an immersive exhibition at New Gallery in Jinbocho, Tokyo, where visitors can experience the world of Dream—Sleep as it expands beyond the printed page and into physical space. For Tomohiro Kono, this issue marks the realization of a long-held creative vision and holds special significance as the first in this new journal series.
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Edition: 300
This book is a photoessay of the mental landscapes I captured from December 2023 to August 4th, 2024, edited in unchronological order.
About memorandom 2 : Emotional Particles
Even when I have a time when I am seriously down, I eventually forget about it because I start to feel better.
Oblivions are necessary for our emotional well-being but I had an urge to document how I was seeing the world during the indescribable emotional isolation because I think that the period is worth remembering.
The photographic images I have captured reflect my unconscious desire to distance myself from ruminative thoughts and negative emotions that have gotten out of control. The moments when I was capturing the lights outside the world, I felt a sense of hope. .｡.:✴︎
［丸山サヤカによるパーソナル・イメージ集『memorandom』シリーズについて］
“その時々に生まれる鮮明な感情や記憶も、時間とともに薄れたり、忘れたり、自分の新しい解釈で上書きされたりします。私にとって本を編集・デザインすることは、記憶の輪郭を残す作業です。”（丸山サヤカ）
『memorandom（メモランダム）』は、丸山サヤカによるパーソナル・イメージ集です。とりとめもなく脳裏に現れるイメージや、日常を切り取った写真、時には作品やドローイングなどのランダムな素材で構成されており、毎日無造作に書き留める日記やメモのような感覚で、アイデアや思考の断片がコラージュされています。また、作家自身が自分で本のエディット・デザインをすることで、記憶と感覚的な部分(インスピレーション)の純粋性をそのまま保存しようという試みでもあります。 ……..✴︎……..✴︎……..✴︎
First Print: 300
Tomihiro Kono, who is best known for his unconventional artistic wigs, has long been exploring hair as his creative medium. All composed of real human hair, the Fancy Creatures presented in this book are his most recent inventive wig fseries, designed between 2020 and 2022.
Tomihiro Kono has always been attracted by the power of hair and the beauty of transformations.
We wish to push through the realm of personality transformations through changing hairstyles, and this time Tomihiro's avant-garde vision has upgraded humans to a whole new level of hybrids which we call 'Fancy Creatures' - imaginary hybrid creatures inspired by various micro-organisms on the Earth, ranging from deep sea creatures and furry moss, to endangered moths.
As an object, hair intrinsically retains a unique power and intimacy even when separated from our bodies, precisely because it was once part of us. Therein lies the magical materiality of the fancy creatures, a unique series of entities that holds an ineffable quality -- ancient but contemporary, familiar yet eery, desirable yet uncertain.
These Fancy Creatures take us on a flight of fancy, to discover a new dimension of unforeseen beauty. Instead of covering the entire head like the typical wig does, these Fancy Creatures can be positioned anywhere, at any angle on the head or even on the face, thus it can also be introduced as a new gadget of make-up.
For Tomihiro, it's through imagination and creation that fulfill our everlasting human desire to metamorphose, to transform our earthly bodies into something else. We hope you, the reader, will enjoy our vision of human’s new metamorphosis.
366 p, Soft cover, ills Full color, 14.5cm x 22.5 cm, English
konomad editions No.006
Limited Editions of 150
Identity is no longer a static, fixed entity but constantly in motion, continually evolving and morphing from one state to another in response to an everaltering and always-connected world. There is new confidence to embrace playful self-expression. Japanese wigmaker and artist Tomihiro Kono explores layered personas (masks) - an evolving self-perception - as he explores the multiplicity of an identity. By comparing different hairstyles through his artisanal wigs, he expands the idea of hairstyle as one of the most significant components of our constructed identities.
本書の序文：
今、私たちはこれまで以上に
多面性を受けいれはじめていると感じます。
あらゆる個人は不確かな存在であり、
常に進化し続けています。
そのため、私たちが自分自身を表現するために選ぶ方法も、
絶えず流動していくのです。
アイデンティティとは、今や静的で固定化されたものではありません。
私たちが生きる世界が変化しつづけるように、とある状態から別の状態へと絶えず移ろい、進化し、変わり続けます。だからあそびのある自己表現を受けいれる新たな確信が生まれているのです。
日本人ウィッグメーカー・アーティストの河野富広は、layered personas＝レイヤードされたペルソナ（社会的な仮面）、つまり「進化し続ける自己認識」の表現の可能性をヘア表現を通して探ろうとしています。アイデンティティの多面性を、ブロンドをメインとした淡い色調で作られたウィッグを用いて、ヘアスタイルの表現で探るアイデアとともに、繰り広げます。
本書「Layered Personas」で河野が焦点を当てるのは、モデルのブロンドの地毛とのバランスで実験しながら、半透明なマスクのありなしも含め、ウィッグを身につけるバリエーションです。その表現はまるで一つのアイデンテティを作るために複数の仮面を重ねる行為であるかのようです。
Work-in-progress Editions of 20
Capturing nudity with a surreal touch with a wig master Tomihiro Kono's fingerwave hair pieces of art, this book is made inspired by the word of Japanese pornography 'hair nude', a nude photograph showing pubic hair that once became popular back in the 80s-90s. However this book doesn't contain any photography with public hair showing, instead Tomihiro Kono creates surreal hair finger wave pieces and place them on the body, which has changed the notion of hair nude.
Firstly she launches a book that is work-in-progress, which reflects her random thoughts in the process of book-editing. As a result, each cover has a unique design, some of the inside pages are hand-painted by artist herself.
New York-based artist Sayaka Maruyama (b.1983) is a multi-disciplinary artist who translates her notions of beauty into photography, drawings, books, and short films. "Life as a whole is a collective box of emotional experiences. "memorandom" records the personal practices of Sayaka Maruyama. She first published 'memorandom 0' in 2019, compiling her work between 2011-2019, including photography, drawings, paintings, collages, objects and extracted images from her short films.
International distributor: IDEA BOOKS NL
Hairstyles are closely related to our identity; They create both our inner and outer self. This can reflect our personality or, in some way, can hide our true self. We can suddenly make ourselves look like a different person by wearing a wig. Wig is a kind of mask, designed on the one hand to make a definite impression upon others, and on the other to conceal the true nature of the individual. Changing how we look is an act of self-reflection, self-assertion, and self-defense.
We live in the spirals of the world by defining ourselves, and being defined by the others.
Tomihiro Kono finds the diverse possibilities of instant transformations with wigs.
The thrill of transformation is universal — never more so than now, as the longstanding barriers around gender soften. But so is the reluctance to change. In that way, the book functions like a handheld companion to Kono’s real-life installations, where visitors can try on his hand-knotted wigs and catch a frisson of an alter-ego. If the chameleonic nature of Personas has a gravitational pull—each otherworldly photo anchoring us to the page—its spirit of wild possibility sparks a new lightness of being. - Laura Regensdorf Beauty Director, Vanity Fair & Contributing Editor, Vogue
International distributor: IDEA BOOKS NL
Artistic practice 2011-2019
‘Memorandom’ records the personal expressions of New York-based artist Sayaka Maruyama between 2011 and 2019, including photography, drawings, paintings, collages, objects, and images from her short films. The notions of beauty and other thoughts that randomly pass through her mind have been visualised and then translated into book form by the artist herself, because how each person perceives the world cannot always be explained logically. Maruyama records indefinable emotions and moments, thereby weaving multiple layered dialogues that result in a personal, poetic, and tangible portrait. Includes a conversation between the artist and Anna Battista.
International distributor: IDEA BOOKS NL
Tomihiro Kono’s distinctive creations, called head props, are the subject of this fascinating book. Already established in his successful international career as a session hair stylist, since 2013 Tomihiro has ventured into new territory with his head props. This book documents the path and inspirations he has followed in his innovative efforts to make decorative designs for the human head, and gives a sense of the uncompromising approach he takes in his work. Filled with detailed sketches, development models, and finished concepts, it makes clear that Tomihiro not only attempts to produce visually striking head designs, but also focuses on functionality in the beauty of form.
230 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 20 cm, pb, English
konomad editions No.001
"Anitya" (अनित्य) is a Sanskrit term meaning impermanence or transience.
It is a key concept in Indian philosophy and especially in Buddhism, where it refers to the idea that all conditioned phenomena are subject to change and do not last forever.
すべてはうつろいゆく。瞬く儚い一瞬の層である。
Capturing the nature and layered, multiple-exposed moments of dance by movement artist Masumi Saito shot in Gunma, Japan.
-- p, ills colour & bw, 30 x 21 cm, pb, English
Head Prop: Tomihiro Kono
film/photo/book
Beautiful moonlight. The calm sound of nature.
Fairies wondering in the cool air in the silent forest.
The sunlight coming through the leaves and brightened their faces and silhouettes.
They chatted to me in a velvety voice and slowly disappeared in the depth of the forest.
This is a series of photography and short film that captures a visionary beauty of nature.
[EXHIBITION]
21 SEPTEMBER 2010@ INQUADRA , 78 Luke Street London
- Art Directed by NEON O'CLOCK WORKS
- photography and film by Sayaka Maruyama
- hair and head prop by Tomihiro Kono
- make-up by Carol Brown @ DW management
- models: Nici, Rose, Masha, Andrea
- MUSIC BY COLLEEN 'i'll read you a story'
- COSTUME: YUKI INOUE
-- p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English
Model: Georgia
Head prop archives between 2008-2011 by Tomihiro Kono captured by Sayaka Maruyama. All pieces made in London.
-- p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English
Illustration: Isvald Klingels
A portrait photo book linked with the music video of 'Starless Night' by Wendy Bevan
Wendy Bevan is a performer, singer based in London. This is the first collaborative work with her.
イギリス人シンガー、パフォーマーのウェンディ・ベバンとコラボレーションした初の作品。
彼女の作品'STARLESS NIGHT'のミュージックビデオと連動した、Wendyがさまざまなスタイルに変身するポートレイト作品集。
-- p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
HEAD PROP COLLECTONS 2010 BY TOMIHIRO KONO
'An enigmatic strange phantasmorgoria made from fragments of my memory.' Deja Vu is a collection of head pieces by Tomihiro Kono reflecting him and his personality. By viewing this collection both in photography and film we are stopping into the world of Neon O'clock Works' subconscious. Here you will find nature-inspired strange characters adorning unique head pieces which were made out of total imagination, and cultural influences in London. In the short film you'll see a magical world of Deja Vu.
[FASHION SHOW] 17 SEPTEMBER 2010 @ STUDIO PRIVATE, 1 Kingsland Road
[PHOTO EXHIBITION] 21 SEPTEMBER 2010@ INQUADRA , 78 Luke Street London
- Art direction (casting / film / costume) by Neon O'clock Works
- Hair & head prop by Tomihiro Kono
- photography / film edited by Sayaka Maruyama
- Music composed by Christos Fanaras
- Costume by Yuki Inoue, Kumiko Takeda
- Production assistants: Tomoko Ueda, Yurie Ohno, Nozomi Yamamoto, Natsuko Sakurai, Yuushi Suzuki, Yuqi Nakamura
- Contributing make-up aritsts: Carol Brown, Clare Read, Yuka Hirata, Thomas de Kluyver
- Stylist for a perfomance show: Louise Fitzpatrick
- Performers: Bea Sweet, Georgie Bee, Magnhild Kennedy, Ash K. Halliburton, Carolyn Geh, Julius Reuben, Alex Voulters, Valeria B, Wendy Bevan, Sooanne Berner, Nando Messias, Lucy Flower, Symara Templeman - Leading performers of the show : Masumi Saito
本作は、演劇的な想像力から生み出された10人の架空のキャラクターで構成されています。それぞれのキャラクターには「鳥」「月」「観音」「蜘蛛」「雲」「森」など、主に自然をモチーフとしたテーマが与えられ、擬人化によって表現されています。スタイルは純粋に個人的な想像と空想に基づき、一体一体を独自に構築しています。
制作はヘッドピースから始まり、衣装、メイク、そしてキャラクター全体のディレクションまで一貫して手がけています。多様な人物像や要素を融合させた背景には、ロンドンという多文化・多人種都市での経験と影響が色濃く反映されています。
-- p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
Wig & Hairstyling: Tomihiro Kono
Expressing Japanese notion of beauty by using Geisha as a motif of Japanese traditional symbol of beauty. Having been westernized in many ways, we've found it a shame that respectable Japanese traditions are fading. We'd like to retain and recreate Geisha as a symbol of Japanese modern beauty by using vivid colours and avant-garde compositions.
芸者は伝統的な日本特有の女性像であるが、 その白塗りの化粧、あでやかな着物、しっかりと結い上げられた髪は ある種昔のものという風に、人々の意識から風化されつつあり それは現実味を失い、生活とはかけはなれた歴史上の存在となりつつある。 しかし芸者は女性の模範的美を保有し、その美しい外見のみならず 礼儀や作法という日本人特有の精神の美の表れでもある。 常に古き良きものを取り入れながら新しいものを生み出すという精神のもと JAPAN AVANTT GARDEに表現される女性たちは、そんな芸者のたたずまいに 新しい現代的な印象を与える。美しい女性像は今も昔も変わらず、表面的な変化を伴いつつも 根底では引き継がれてるというシンボルとして、鮮やかで強い色味と大胆な構成のなかに存在している。ロンドンに移住したことで、日本の美を振り返るきっかけになった一冊。 (EYEMAZING 2009 cover & article掲載作品)
-- p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
“Taking inspiration from the corset, a historical emblem of distorted beauty, this work reflects on the irony of beauty’s allure: the body constrained, reshaped, and endangered in pursuit of perfection.”
These portraits depict “slaves of beauty”—women who silently gaze inward, as if confronting what lies beneath their skin when bound by a corset. They stand as symbols of our complicated relationship with beauty. Our story is neither pure fantasy detached from reality, nor stark reality stripped of fantasy, but something that exists in the tension between the two.
コルセットという〈美しい下着〉を〈破壊的な器具〉 として 捉えたときに浮かびあがってくる世界。 それは、圧迫された身体の悲鳴に耳を傾けた者だけが 見ること のできる "KRAGENEIDECHSE"と呼ばれる実験舞台.
konomad editions No.001
Neon O'clock Works: Artist unit of Sayaka Maruyama and Tomihiro Kono. 'The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.'- Carl Jung
konomad journal N°0: Dream—Sleep issue
The first concept journal curated by konomad featuring 66 artist about their dream & sleep
Printed in China, Published in June 13 2025
ISBN 9780998620572Edition: 666
Feature Theme: Dream—Sleep Issue
The inaugural issue, konomad journal N°0: Dream—Sleep Issue, is a concept-driven visual book created in collaboration with 66 artists who inspired konomad, centered around the theme “The Forest of Dreams and Sleep.” This issue began with editor-in-chief Tomohiro Kono’s deep interest in the realms of sleep and dreams. Each artist interprets the theme from their own unique perspective, weaving together a collection of fantastical, dreamlike worlds. These parallel visions converge to form a richly imagined "forest of dreams" within the pages of the book.
In addition to the visual works, the journal features Q&A-style interviews exploring the artists’ personal stories and reflections related to sleep, dreams, and their creative routines. To coincide with the launch of this issue, we will host an immersive exhibition at New Gallery in Jinbocho, Tokyo, where visitors can experience the world of Dream—Sleep as it expands beyond the printed page and into physical space. For Tomohiro Kono, this issue marks the realization of a long-held creative vision and holds special significance as the first in this new journal series.
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memorandom 02 [Emotional Particles]
Author | Artist | Book Design : Sayaka Maruyama
Printed in China, Published in November 2024
ISBN 9780998620572Edition: 300
This book is a photoessay of the mental landscapes I captured from December 2023 to August 4th, 2024, edited in unchronological order.
About memorandom 2 : Emotional Particles
Even when I have a time when I am seriously down, I eventually forget about it because I start to feel better.
Oblivions are necessary for our emotional well-being but I had an urge to document how I was seeing the world during the indescribable emotional isolation because I think that the period is worth remembering.
The photographic images I have captured reflect my unconscious desire to distance myself from ruminative thoughts and negative emotions that have gotten out of control. The moments when I was capturing the lights outside the world, I felt a sense of hope. .｡.:✴︎
［丸山サヤカによるパーソナル・イメージ集『memorandom』シリーズについて］
“その時々に生まれる鮮明な感情や記憶も、時間とともに薄れたり、忘れたり、自分の新しい解釈で上書きされたりします。私にとって本を編集・デザインすることは、記憶の輪郭を残す作業です。”（丸山サヤカ）
『memorandom（メモランダム）』は、丸山サヤカによるパーソナル・イメージ集です。とりとめもなく脳裏に現れるイメージや、日常を切り取った写真、時には作品やドローイングなどのランダムな素材で構成されており、毎日無造作に書き留める日記やメモのような感覚で、アイデアや思考の断片がコラージュされています。また、作家自身が自分で本のエディット・デザインをすることで、記憶と感覚的な部分(インスピレーション)の純粋性をそのまま保存しようという試みでもあります。 ……..✴︎……..✴︎……..✴︎
Fancy Creatures - The Art of Wig Making 2020-2022
Wig : Tomihiro Kono
Photography | Illustration | Design: Sayaka Maruyama
Contributing Text : Christopher Schreck
Printed in Japan, Published in February 2023
ISBN 9780998620565First Print: 300
Tomihiro Kono, who is best known for his unconventional artistic wigs, has long been exploring hair as his creative medium. All composed of real human hair, the Fancy Creatures presented in this book are his most recent inventive wig fseries, designed between 2020 and 2022.
Tomihiro Kono has always been attracted by the power of hair and the beauty of transformations.
We wish to push through the realm of personality transformations through changing hairstyles, and this time Tomihiro's avant-garde vision has upgraded humans to a whole new level of hybrids which we call 'Fancy Creatures' - imaginary hybrid creatures inspired by various micro-organisms on the Earth, ranging from deep sea creatures and furry moss, to endangered moths.
As an object, hair intrinsically retains a unique power and intimacy even when separated from our bodies, precisely because it was once part of us. Therein lies the magical materiality of the fancy creatures, a unique series of entities that holds an ineffable quality -- ancient but contemporary, familiar yet eery, desirable yet uncertain.
These Fancy Creatures take us on a flight of fancy, to discover a new dimension of unforeseen beauty. Instead of covering the entire head like the typical wig does, these Fancy Creatures can be positioned anywhere, at any angle on the head or even on the face, thus it can also be introduced as a new gadget of make-up.
For Tomihiro, it's through imagination and creation that fulfill our everlasting human desire to metamorphose, to transform our earthly bodies into something else. We hope you, the reader, will enjoy our vision of human’s new metamorphosis.
366 p, Soft cover, ills Full color, 14.5cm x 22.5 cm, English
konomad editions No.006
Layered Personas - The Art of Wig Making 2020
Artist : Tomihiro Kono
Photography : Sayaka Maruyama
Contributing Text : Christopher Schreck
Printed in Italy, Published in November 2020
ISBN 9780998620541Limited Editions of 150
Identity is no longer a static, fixed entity but constantly in motion, continually evolving and morphing from one state to another in response to an everaltering and always-connected world. There is new confidence to embrace playful self-expression. Japanese wigmaker and artist Tomihiro Kono explores layered personas (masks) - an evolving self-perception - as he explores the multiplicity of an identity. By comparing different hairstyles through his artisanal wigs, he expands the idea of hairstyle as one of the most significant components of our constructed identities.
本書の序文：
今、私たちはこれまで以上に
多面性を受けいれはじめていると感じます。
あらゆる個人は不確かな存在であり、
常に進化し続けています。
そのため、私たちが自分自身を表現するために選ぶ方法も、
絶えず流動していくのです。
アイデンティティとは、今や静的で固定化されたものではありません。
私たちが生きる世界が変化しつづけるように、とある状態から別の状態へと絶えず移ろい、進化し、変わり続けます。だからあそびのある自己表現を受けいれる新たな確信が生まれているのです。
日本人ウィッグメーカー・アーティストの河野富広は、layered personas＝レイヤードされたペルソナ（社会的な仮面）、つまり「進化し続ける自己認識」の表現の可能性をヘア表現を通して探ろうとしています。アイデンティティの多面性を、ブロンドをメインとした淡い色調で作られたウィッグを用いて、ヘアスタイルの表現で探るアイデアとともに、繰り広げます。
本書「Layered Personas」で河野が焦点を当てるのは、モデルのブロンドの地毛とのバランスで実験しながら、半透明なマスクのありなしも含め、ウィッグを身につけるバリエーションです。その表現はまるで一つのアイデンテティを作るために複数の仮面を重ねる行為であるかのようです。
memorandom 1 [𝘍𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘉𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴]
Author | Artist | Book Design : Sayaka Maruyama
Hair Sculptures: Tomihiro Kono
Model: Erika Larson, Cameron Lee Phan
Contributing Text : Anna Battista
Contributing Make-up : Marika Aoki, Yuko Kawashima, Chiho Omae
Printed in Italy, Published in May 2020
ISBN 978-0-9986205-3-4Work-in-progress Editions of 20
Capturing nudity with a surreal touch with a wig master Tomihiro Kono's fingerwave hair pieces of art, this book is made inspired by the word of Japanese pornography 'hair nude', a nude photograph showing pubic hair that once became popular back in the 80s-90s. However this book doesn't contain any photography with public hair showing, instead Tomihiro Kono creates surreal hair finger wave pieces and place them on the body, which has changed the notion of hair nude.
Firstly she launches a book that is work-in-progress, which reflects her random thoughts in the process of book-editing. As a result, each cover has a unique design, some of the inside pages are hand-painted by artist herself.
New York-based artist Sayaka Maruyama (b.1983) is a multi-disciplinary artist who translates her notions of beauty into photography, drawings, books, and short films. "Life as a whole is a collective box of emotional experiences. "memorandom" records the personal practices of Sayaka Maruyama. She first published 'memorandom 0' in 2019, compiling her work between 2011-2019, including photography, drawings, paintings, collages, objects and extracted images from her short films.
PERSONAS 111 - The Art of Wig Making 2017-2020
Author : Tomihiro Kono
Photography : Sayaka Maruyama
Contributing Text : Anna Battista, Laura Regensdorf, Masami Hosono
Printed in Italy, Published in March 2020
ISBN 9780998620503International distributor: IDEA BOOKS NL
Hairstyles are closely related to our identity; They create both our inner and outer self. This can reflect our personality or, in some way, can hide our true self. We can suddenly make ourselves look like a different person by wearing a wig. Wig is a kind of mask, designed on the one hand to make a definite impression upon others, and on the other to conceal the true nature of the individual. Changing how we look is an act of self-reflection, self-assertion, and self-defense.
We live in the spirals of the world by defining ourselves, and being defined by the others.
Tomihiro Kono finds the diverse possibilities of instant transformations with wigs.
The thrill of transformation is universal — never more so than now, as the longstanding barriers around gender soften. But so is the reluctance to change. In that way, the book functions like a handheld companion to Kono’s real-life installations, where visitors can try on his hand-knotted wigs and catch a frisson of an alter-ego. If the chameleonic nature of Personas has a gravitational pull—each otherworldly photo anchoring us to the page—its spirit of wild possibility sparks a new lightness of being. - Laura Regensdorf Beauty Director, Vanity Fair & Contributing Editor, Vogue
memorandom 0 [𝘉𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥𝘴]
Author | Artist | Book Design : Sayaka Maruyama
Contributing Text : Anna Battista
Printed in Italy, Published in April 2019
ISBN 9780998620527International distributor: IDEA BOOKS NL
Artistic practice 2011-2019
‘Memorandom’ records the personal expressions of New York-based artist Sayaka Maruyama between 2011 and 2019, including photography, drawings, paintings, collages, objects, and images from her short films. The notions of beauty and other thoughts that randomly pass through her mind have been visualised and then translated into book form by the artist herself, because how each person perceives the world cannot always be explained logically. Maruyama records indefinable emotions and moments, thereby weaving multiple layered dialogues that result in a personal, poetic, and tangible portrait. Includes a conversation between the artist and Anna Battista.
HEAD PROP studies 2013-2016
Author | Artist : Tomihiro Kono
Book Design | Contributing Text : konomad editions
Printed in the U.S., Published in April 2017
ISBN 9780998620510International distributor: IDEA BOOKS NL
Tomihiro Kono’s distinctive creations, called head props, are the subject of this fascinating book. Already established in his successful international career as a session hair stylist, since 2013 Tomihiro has ventured into new territory with his head props. This book documents the path and inspirations he has followed in his innovative efforts to make decorative designs for the human head, and gives a sense of the uncompromising approach he takes in his work. Filled with detailed sketches, development models, and finished concepts, it makes clear that Tomihiro not only attempts to produce visually striking head designs, but also focuses on functionality in the beauty of form.
230 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 20 cm, pb, English
konomad editions No.001
Anitya (2015)
Photography / Book Design : Sayaka Maruyama
Movement Artist: Masumi Saito
Costume Artist: Kumiko TakedaPrinted in Japan, Published in 2015
"Anitya" (अनित्य) is a Sanskrit term meaning impermanence or transience.
It is a key concept in Indian philosophy and especially in Buddhism, where it refers to the idea that all conditioned phenomena are subject to change and do not last forever.
すべてはうつろいゆく。瞬く儚い一瞬の層である。
Capturing the nature and layered, multiple-exposed moments of dance by movement artist Masumi Saito shot in Gunma, Japan.
-- p, ills colour & bw, 30 x 21 cm, pb, English
Mnemosyne (2011)
Author | Artist : NEON O'CLOCK WORKS (Tomihiro Kono & Sayaka Maruyama)
Photography / Book Design / Hand-binding : Sayaka Maruyama
Head Prop: Tomihiro Kono
Printed in London, Published in 2011
film/photo/book
Beautiful moonlight. The calm sound of nature.
Fairies wondering in the cool air in the silent forest.
The sunlight coming through the leaves and brightened their faces and silhouettes.
They chatted to me in a velvety voice and slowly disappeared in the depth of the forest.
This is a series of photography and short film that captures a visionary beauty of nature.
[EXHIBITION]
21 SEPTEMBER 2010@ INQUADRA , 78 Luke Street London
- Art Directed by NEON O'CLOCK WORKS
- photography and film by Sayaka Maruyama
- hair and head prop by Tomihiro Kono
- make-up by Carol Brown @ DW management
- models: Nici, Rose, Masha, Andrea
- MUSIC BY COLLEEN 'i'll read you a story'
- COSTUME: YUKI INOUE
-- p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English
Hair & Head Prop Archive (2008-2011)
Artist : Tomihiro Kono
Photography / Book Design / Hand-binding : Sayaka Maruyama
Model: Georgia
Printed in London, Published in 2012
Head prop archives between 2008-2011 by Tomihiro Kono captured by Sayaka Maruyama. All pieces made in London.
-- p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English
STARLESS NIGHT (2010)
Author | Artist : NEON O'CLOCK WORKS (Tomihiro Kono & Sayaka Maruyama)
Book Design / Hand-binding : Sayaka Maruyama
Model / Performance artist: Wendy BevanIllustration: Isvald Klingels
Printed in London, Published in 2010
A portrait photo book linked with the music video of 'Starless Night' by Wendy Bevan
Wendy Bevan is a performer, singer based in London. This is the first collaborative work with her.
イギリス人シンガー、パフォーマーのウェンディ・ベバンとコラボレーションした初の作品。
彼女の作品'STARLESS NIGHT'のミュージックビデオと連動した、Wendyがさまざまなスタイルに変身するポートレイト作品集。
-- p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
DÉJÀ-VU (2010)
Author | Artist : NEON O'CLOCK WORKS (Tomihiro Kono & Sayaka Maruyama)
Book Design / Hand-binding : Sayaka Maruyama
Printed in London, Published in 2010
HEAD PROP COLLECTONS 2010 BY TOMIHIRO KONO
'An enigmatic strange phantasmorgoria made from fragments of my memory.' Deja Vu is a collection of head pieces by Tomihiro Kono reflecting him and his personality. By viewing this collection both in photography and film we are stopping into the world of Neon O'clock Works' subconscious. Here you will find nature-inspired strange characters adorning unique head pieces which were made out of total imagination, and cultural influences in London. In the short film you'll see a magical world of Deja Vu.
[FASHION SHOW] 17 SEPTEMBER 2010 @ STUDIO PRIVATE, 1 Kingsland Road
[PHOTO EXHIBITION] 21 SEPTEMBER 2010@ INQUADRA , 78 Luke Street London
- Art direction (casting / film / costume) by Neon O'clock Works
- Hair & head prop by Tomihiro Kono
- photography / film edited by Sayaka Maruyama
- Music composed by Christos Fanaras
- Costume by Yuki Inoue, Kumiko Takeda
- Production assistants: Tomoko Ueda, Yurie Ohno, Nozomi Yamamoto, Natsuko Sakurai, Yuushi Suzuki, Yuqi Nakamura
- Contributing make-up aritsts: Carol Brown, Clare Read, Yuka Hirata, Thomas de Kluyver
- Stylist for a perfomance show: Louise Fitzpatrick
- Performers: Bea Sweet, Georgie Bee, Magnhild Kennedy, Ash K. Halliburton, Carolyn Geh, Julius Reuben, Alex Voulters, Valeria B, Wendy Bevan, Sooanne Berner, Nando Messias, Lucy Flower, Symara Templeman - Leading performers of the show : Masumi Saito
本作は、演劇的な想像力から生み出された10人の架空のキャラクターで構成されています。それぞれのキャラクターには「鳥」「月」「観音」「蜘蛛」「雲」「森」など、主に自然をモチーフとしたテーマが与えられ、擬人化によって表現されています。スタイルは純粋に個人的な想像と空想に基づき、一体一体を独自に構築しています。
制作はヘッドピースから始まり、衣装、メイク、そしてキャラクター全体のディレクションまで一貫して手がけています。多様な人物像や要素を融合させた背景には、ロンドンという多文化・多人種都市での経験と影響が色濃く反映されています。
-- p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
JAPAN AVANT-GARDE (2008-2009)
Author | Artist : NEON O'CLOCK WORKS (Tomihiro Kono & Sayaka Maruyama)
Photography / Book Design / Hand-binding : Sayaka Maruyama
Wig & Hairstyling: Tomihiro Kono
Printed in London, Published in 2010
Expressing Japanese notion of beauty by using Geisha as a motif of Japanese traditional symbol of beauty. Having been westernized in many ways, we've found it a shame that respectable Japanese traditions are fading. We'd like to retain and recreate Geisha as a symbol of Japanese modern beauty by using vivid colours and avant-garde compositions.
芸者は伝統的な日本特有の女性像であるが、 その白塗りの化粧、あでやかな着物、しっかりと結い上げられた髪は ある種昔のものという風に、人々の意識から風化されつつあり それは現実味を失い、生活とはかけはなれた歴史上の存在となりつつある。 しかし芸者は女性の模範的美を保有し、その美しい外見のみならず 礼儀や作法という日本人特有の精神の美の表れでもある。 常に古き良きものを取り入れながら新しいものを生み出すという精神のもと JAPAN AVANTT GARDEに表現される女性たちは、そんな芸者のたたずまいに 新しい現代的な印象を与える。美しい女性像は今も昔も変わらず、表面的な変化を伴いつつも 根底では引き継がれてるというシンボルとして、鮮やかで強い色味と大胆な構成のなかに存在している。ロンドンに移住したことで、日本の美を振り返るきっかけになった一冊。 (EYEMAZING 2009 cover & article掲載作品)
-- p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
Krageneidechse (2007)
Author | Artist : NEON O'CLOCK WORKS (Tomihiro Kono & Sayaka Maruyama)
Book Design / Hand-binding : Sayaka Maruyama
Printed in Japan, Published in 2007
“Taking inspiration from the corset, a historical emblem of distorted beauty, this work reflects on the irony of beauty’s allure: the body constrained, reshaped, and endangered in pursuit of perfection.”
These portraits depict “slaves of beauty”—women who silently gaze inward, as if confronting what lies beneath their skin when bound by a corset. They stand as symbols of our complicated relationship with beauty. Our story is neither pure fantasy detached from reality, nor stark reality stripped of fantasy, but something that exists in the tension between the two.
コルセットという〈美しい下着〉を〈破壊的な器具〉 として 捉えたときに浮かびあがってくる世界。 それは、圧迫された身体の悲鳴に耳を傾けた者だけが 見ること のできる "KRAGENEIDECHSE"と呼ばれる実験舞台.
konomad editions No.001
Neon O'clock Works: Artist unit of Sayaka Maruyama and Tomihiro Kono. 'The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.'- Carl Jung