Why is this village lost in the middle of the Japanese mountains deserted when all the guesthouses are fully booked? How can meeting a policeman change the course of a journey?
Travelogue of Séverine Bascouert in Yoshinoyama mountains of Nara Prefecture, Japan. The journey has turned into a Tsuge Yoshiharu style story as one set foot in the country side. It becomes adventurous when all the hotels are occupied but the village is left deserted. And the encounters with the guest house owner and the policeman has made the journey more intriguing, as if one can never leave. The profundity of nature in the deep valley is genuinely pictured in Séverine’s little pieces of paintings in gouache and Nihonga pigments.
挪石社最新出版，Séverine Bascouert 《Our Policeman》——記述作者2024年末兩個月，於日本奈良縣的吉野山遊歷，下榻在街上了無人煙但旅館都客滿了的山村裡，遊離浪盪無所事事；旅人與客棧老闆、及山村唯一員警的微妙互動，行程中有驚無險，有點像柘植義春漫畫裡，去了荒僻鄉村旅行的興味。
Séverine 旅程沿途畫下一系列小畫，不透明水彩與水粉交融，畫出了山中深邃的感覺。2024年12月中，藝術家來台參加敝社舉辦的One Table Art Book Fair # 2 Lagon Revue 書展活動，期間製作赴印，Séverine還親自上陣絹印書封，本書於活動中首發。法中英三語，限量250本。
