Tokyo Papers nature investigates the powers at play

investigates the powers at play in our society and its subversive

debunking popular myths along the way

this book embarks on a journey to a city that no longer exists

Kira Bunse

by Alberto Fuguet

Tokyo Papers nature investigates the powers at playTokyo Papers comprises a collection of 41 monoprints created by Dutch graphic designer and typographer Karel Martens between 2019 and 2020. In 2018, moreMartens received a package from artist curator Pierre Leguillon that contained filled in Japanese forms which he had found at a street market in Tokyo. Martens was intrigued by the collection of thin paper with a rectangular black blue layer of carbon on the back. In 2019 he started to print on these