SCULPTURES FOR RITSURIN GARDEN Mina Enowaki
Mina Enowaki’s new book is a multidimensional tour de force, quite literally. Sculptures for Ritsurin Garden ( presented with 4 unique covers, silk screened on Japanese paper ) explores how sculptural forms, depicted in different visual modes, can inhabit multiple dimensions of perception. The book invites the viewer to consider how our understanding of form is shaped by changes in its representation.
Sculptures for Ritsurin Garden brings together different types of photographs, prints and drawings for imaginary sculptures created by Enowaki for the historic Ritsurin Garden in Takamatsu, Japan. The realistic photographic depictions of the sculptures in the book, made as miniatures, exist solely through the lens of the camera. Blending fiction and documentation, Enowaki uses photography as a space for projection. Through shifts in scale and subtle layering, the sculptures emerge not as additions, but as elements that feel strangely native.
Some of the depictions of the sculptural forms are shown in decontextualized settings, emphasizing their formal qualities and allowing the viewer to imagine the forms at different scales or in other environments. The book also features vintage postcards of Ritsurin Garden, underscoring the site’s timeless quality and the interplay between memory and invention. The book concludes with a reference section featuring a selection of images and text that provide context for much of the work featured in the book.
2025Soft cover with silkscreened dust cover on Awagami paper (4 versions)
156 pages
8.3 × 5.8 in (148 × 210 mm)
Printed in Watford, England
Edition of 100
$50