Extreme love, extreme loneliness

During the SVA Summer Residency, Anna Raff asked us to create a series of illustration starting from a short story. I chose Haruki Murakami’s Confession of a Shinagawa Monkey — a surreal tale about a monkey who speaks Japanese and secretly falls in love with human women (and steals their IDs). I was drawn to its quiet strangeness and emotional undercurrents.

My illustrations aimed to capture the story’s mood and themes of loneliness, memory, and identity, using simple compositions and contrasting colors.

Personal project – SVA Summer Residency, 2024