{"product_id":"mike-slack-walking-in-place-3-tokyo","title":"Mike Slack – Walking in Place 3: Tokyo","description":"\u003cp\u003e‘Mysterious, unfathomable, and unutterable as the mystic experience itself is, the road that leads to it should not be.’ – Eugen Herrigel, The Method of Zen\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWalking in Place 3: Tokyo extends the path of Tucson-based artist Mike Slack’s previous two volumes (on Berlin and New Orleans, both newly republished) into the gently sunlit corners and cul-de-sacs of Japan’s largest city — an incomprehensibly vast megalopolis teeming with unexpected pockets of sensuality, humour, and quietude.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs with the previous books in this series, Slack’s ambulations are objectively site-specific — this is identifiably Tokyo terrain — yet oddly subjective. The journey is both outward (on foot) and inward (in the mind’s eye). The resulting images are at once formal and poetic; Slack’s playful renderings foreground the city’s unique palette of architectural eccentricities, graphic gestures, and cultural echoes, as much as they dissolve them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere, we traverse zones of transcendental order within the flux of a chaotic megacity. There is calm amidst the density. Our gaze tilts upward to survey vast architectures; spans outward to note the unlikely curvatures, stairwells, and domestically scaled architecture; and hones downward at the oblique tile-work, the odd flourishes, the cats, the shadow play, and the fine grain of the city.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this humorous, nonetheless exacting sequence, the city folds in on itself to describe Tokyo’s curious, utterly unique, ambience. The underpinnings of architectural Metabolism – the mid-century Japanese avant-garde movement – seem relevant here. The way Slack renders it, the city becomes an ever-changing organism in constant flow, decay, and renewal; where the jewels of perception and life reveal themselves, if only we free ourselves to look.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot unlike the first two books in this series, Walking in Place 3: Tokyo is less a city guide than a pocket-sized psychic map – an open proposition for gentle collisions in mind, body, and urban space. In Tokyo, we consider the liminal space between the contemplation and nonchalance, and the fruit that such a state can bear. We pause on how the mind’s eye can both simplify and amplify the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Different than Magma","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55590586155384,"sku":"9781922545565","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0285\/4760\/files\/2026-06-26_15-05-55.png?v=1782482843","url":"https:\/\/magma-shop.com\/products\/mike-slack-walking-in-place-3-tokyo","provider":"Magma","version":"1.0","type":"link"}