Blacks Beach - San Diego, CA
Happy Together (1997) dir. Wong Kar Wai
Ivan Aivazovsky
Miyu Kojima Creates Miniature Replicas of Lonely Deaths
Twenty six-year old Miyu Kojima works for a company that cleans up after kodokushi (孤独死) or lonely deaths: a Japanese phenomenon of people dying alone and remaining undiscovered for a long period of time. The instances first began to be reported around 2000, and are thought to be a product of increased social isolation coupled with a greying population.
Part art therapy and part public service campaign, Kojima spends a large portion of her free time recreating detailed miniature replicas of the rooms she has cleaned. A word of caution: although recreated without the corpses, some of the replicas can be quite disturbing.
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Sauk County Standard, Baraboo, Wisconsin, May 16, 1855
In This Corner of the World ‘この世界の片隅に’ (2018)
