Last week or some time ago I came across a mastodon post that Tokyo Art Book Fair is happening this weekend. We thought it would be fun to go since we planned to be in tokyo around the same time too. So that’s our adventure for today:
I had no idea how an art book fair would be like. This is my first I think, and it feels amazing to be able to attend one in tokyo of all places. We were there around 11ish am and it was already quite crowded.
My partner participated in this collaborative poster by drawing a square and she received a previous completed poster in return! I thought it was a pretty cool concept. We felt bad getting the poster for free though.
I managed to find the booth of the artist who posted about the art book fair on mastodon, though we almost missed him as there was an entire exhibition area hidden at basement two – we’ve finished the exhibition booths at level one and thought that was the end. If I didn’t attempt to look for him we wouldn’t have known there was another gigantic exhibition area at the basement level.
There was so much art it was overwhelming. It felt impossible to finish seeing everything. We both felt over-stimulated at the end.
When we left around 2ish pm there was a pretty long line formed to get into the museum. It is quite cool to see so many people into art, especially because the event was being ticketed at 1000 yen per person.
This is my personal book haul – I have a thing for food drawings (pardon the bad photo, I took at at the end of the day with bad room lighting):
The book fair was very inspiring for both my partner and myself. I’m glad someone boosted that post into my mastodon timeline else I wouldn’t even be aware that the event was ongoing. Serendipity is cool I guess.
Sometimes I take in so much I feel like something in churning in me and I have no idea how to get it all out. I hope I live long enough and the world doesn’t implode too quickly, so I am able to figure it out one day.