I Used to Be Your Neighbor♡ is a publication that enlarges and reconfigures a large-scale painting originally presented in Bird Pit’s solo exhibition held in Seoul in 2019. The painting depicts an imagined public square from the perspective of a pigeon in the cityscape, showing how individuals drift like islands within the crowd. As viewers move along the 4.5-meter-long work, they experience the painting spatially, becoming part of the crowd within the public square.
The book revisits the painting from a third-person viewpoint, which may belong to the viewer or the pigeon, by closely capturing and rearranging fragments of the original image. Through this process, the publication offers a new context for viewing the work. The randomly enlarged images are edited in a way that feels both connected and disconnected, encouraging a non-linear reading. In doing so, the book explores alternative possibilities that emerge when the act of reading a wall-mounted, large-scale painting is translated into the medium of a book.
21.5 x 32 cm
62 pages
2026 (2nd Edition)
