Sayaka Maruyama:
memorandom 02 [Emotional Particles]
Edition of 300




Photography| Illstration | Design: Sayaka Maruyama
Publisher: konomad editions
ISBN 9780998620572

Book Specifications:
Title: 'memorandom 2' Book composed of photographic images
Author: Sayaka Maruyama
Page: 108 Full color / English
Size: 140mm x 240mm


konomad editions No.007, published in 1 November 2024

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. .｡.:✴︎

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［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。

“𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘹 𝘰𝘧 𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴.”

#𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘮 (𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘰+𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘮) 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴 𝘣𝘺 𝘚𝘢𝘺𝘢𝘬𝘢 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘶𝘺𝘢𝘮𝘢, 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘯𝘰. 0 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 2019. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘭𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘶𝘺𝘢𝘮𝘢 𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦. 𝘉𝘺 𝘣𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘮 𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘮 𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘭𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭, 𝘱𝘰𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵.

Visual 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. Her book series of "memorandom" records the personal practices of Sayaka Maruyama, which includesd photography, drawings, paintings, collages, objects and captured images in her daily life. The emotional images passing through her mind are translated into the form of a book by the artist herself. Maruyama feels it is more natural for her to in- stinctively translate her vision into images rather than into words. Rather than being completed and finished, these images retain all the beauty of the non-finito, they are still in the process of becoming and escape the trap of being categorized in a specific form. "I am simply interested in how we perceive beauty in our own perspective, react to it and make visible so that we can share with others." How each person perceives the world can not always be explained logically. Maruyama gives importance to the act of recording indefinable emotions and moments. By binding her random memorandoms, these collected images, drawings and fragments of text weave multiple layered dialogues that result in a personal, poetic and tangible portrait of the artist. "I wonder if each reader will get a different feeling and interpretation of my works while leafing through this volume and in return how my work will be influenced by them."

“普段よりロー・エナジーな冬。靄がかった日々のループの中で、気晴らしのために公園や自然の中を散歩することも多く、水面に反射する日光の煌めきがとくに眩しく脳裏に焼きついています。今作は、日常生活の中で希望を感じさせてくれた数々の光の残像、また日常のふとした瞬間に、琴線に触れたイメージの写真をまとめたもので、2023年の冬から2024年7月頃までの間の自分自身の心情と、数々の光の輪郭が映し出された一冊となりました。”（丸山サヤカ）