Miyoko Asada

Trapped Balloon

Trapped Balloon

A woman who has not seen her father for several years and does not have a good relationship with him. An unsociable man who lives near her father’s house. Slowly the relationship between the woman, her father, and the man…

She is me, I am her

She is me, I am her

A socially-distanced college reunion, an unusual rapport struck between a food delivery man and a patron, a bus-stop encounter, and a blind woman scammed into thinking her brother is sick constitute the stories of Mayu Nakamura’s COVID-era quadriptych—a work that…