＊Notice of picture book publication＊ 「シカになったシバ」 (published by Poplar) Text: Rika Fujiwara / Pictures: Reika Nakayama To be published September 3 (Wed.), 2014 The original pictures for the picture book are also on display. Solo exhibition 'The morning star' Uooooooooh! In the dawn sky, the jaguar gave one roar. Piiiiiiii!! Shiba cried too, not to be outdone. Then the stone god said: 'Ah, I see, everyone, it's a shame, but it looks like the time has come to call it a close.' And so, the moment the stone god clapped both hands, pon, toward the morning star shining in the eastern sky, 'Pi-iii, piiiiiii........' Shiba, before one's very eyes, was wrapped in a whirl of pure white stardust. (From the picture book 「シカになったシバ」, published by Poplar / text: Rika Fujiwara / pictures: Reika Nakayama) Before dawn, when the darkness of night deepens sharply as if everything were reset once, the morning star rises. A moment when light and darkness are joined together. At that instant, I am certain that the end and the beginning are quietly connected. Under the star that lights the place where we are, as if scooping it up, fuu.. Reika Nakayama