Moshi–Moshi Press ~ California
(Seiko Tachibana)

Letter in the Wind
By Seiko Tachibana
Oakland, California: 2006. Edition of 20 in English, 10 in French, and 10 in Italian.

4.75 x 7"; 16 8-page booklets housed in a plexiglas box designed by the artist. Digital print on vellum paper. The origami structures are constructed from organdi and tea chest papers.

Seiko Tachibana from the Colophon: “Letter in the Wind is a book about poetry—the poetry of language itself. There is a familiar Japanese phrase, which literally translated become ‘I heard it from a letter in the wind.’…More precisely, the phrase means ‘the wind delivered a message to me,’ or as the common English saying goes, ‘a little bird told me.’

“This book is comprised of 16 Japanese words, each realized in the form of a card. These 16 words are themselves constructed from two separate words: the Japanese word for wind and one other word, which when combined create an entirely new term whose meaning relates in some way to the wind.”

Wind + taste = savor; wind + boat = balloon. Each booklet focuses on one word/word combination; five booklets incorporate illustrative origami.
$450