In a world where words flow in and out, everyone may have forgotten their own words.
While wandering in an empty desert-like world, a large puddle suddenly appeared.
Peering in, I see my reflection in the surface of the water.
Bubbling. I listen carefully. I sink into the blue water.
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At the bottom of it,
Someone who looked like me said.
“This is the inside of a book – your story,
At the bottom of the lake,
where all kinds of memories are buried, lies a fossil in the shape of a word.
Let’s talk about something and try to remember your forgotten words.”
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Cafe Mizuumi is a café that serves sweets to savor each “word” – “word-eating kanji cookies” in the shape of various kanji characters, and is an interactive artwork as a cafe that goes on and on with our daily lives.
We are also a book, and while talking with visitors (between reality and dreams), we write pages every day.
In this world where words abound and flow… by talking to yourself and savoring each word carefully, you will remember yourself, your five senses and “words” that you have forgotten. …… at Mizu-Umi, an oasis of mirage. Enjoy the sightseeing around you.
A café where you eat words in a book, “Mizu-Umi” is a wild media that reflects you – here, words for you are sleeping.
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Café Mizuumi is conscious of sustainable food in this age of poverty and food crisis.
The “Words-Eating Kanji Cookies” are made with the simplest ingredients possible, so that you can taste the words themselves.
The taste of “the meaning of words” is a taste.
These sweets are made with the same ingredients, but each word is different, and can have an infinite number of flavors.
Even the same word can have different tastes depending on the person.
Rather than simply eating a cookie, the idea is to talk to oneself, to make one’s memories (past) and imagination (future) physical in the present – to deepen and expand the present self, and to allow that imagination to ripple through the body into reality.
As long as human beings exist, eating and interacting with others will continue as sustenance for life. We may not be able to live on haze, but we may be able to live on words. Like an endless chatter that goes on forever, losing track of time…
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p.s.
When the book, when the world is turned upside down, words fall in pieces from the sky and become a song – it is a “song of heaven and earth”. The music stirs the wind and the words dance in the sky, falling and piling up layers of memories again.
Then everyone forgets the words again. But no matter how many times we find the same words, the “voice” breathes new life into them. So let’s talk, let’s sing.