Dark chills on a summer day (3)

Ito Junji exhibition (2024.4.27-9.1)

Probably my favorite Ito Junji story is Uzumaki (Spiral):

• Kurozu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Saito Shuichi, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Goshima Kirie, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the world. It manifests itself in small ways: seashells, ferns, whirlpools in water, whirlwinds in air. And in large ways: the spiral marks on people's bodies, the insane obsessions of Shuichi's father, the voice from the cochlea in your inner ear. As the madness spreads, the inhabitants of Kurozu-cho are pulled ever deeper, as if into a whirlpool from which there is no return...

Scary stuff, eh?

At the end of the exhibition there’s also a machine that you can use to spiralize yourself. Here’s what it did to me.

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