THOMAS, Apollo
Chuo Rapid Line

“The Chūō (Rapid) Line is a fast subway line of the East Japan Railways Company that I take all the time when I’m in Japan., it leaves from Tokyo central station to reach the local and popular neighborhoods in the west of the city.
With this series of drawings, I wanted to evoke the omnipresent feeling that I experience when I travel on this train : an almost retro-futuristic nostalgia for an unknown past. So I chose to tell a deconstructed story, made of bribes of images and intertwined panels borrowed from comics, in order to recreate a blurry sensation like when you wake up dizzy from a strange dream.
Can Can Press, a creative studio and publishing label based in Mexico City, adapted my Chuo Rapid Line exhibition at Atelier Bergère into a Riso print book, four layers Blue, Fluo Pink, Yellow and Black.”
—Apollo Thomas

20 páginas
20×26 cm
300 ejemplares
Impreso en risografía

Published by Can Can Press, 2024
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