Vira - Signed Edition

"The cherry blossom is like a mirror, reflecting who I am Mika Ninagawa Vira is Mika Ninagawas homage to the cherry blossom, her love letter to their intense and fragile beauty. Framed on the page by a thick white margin, Ninagawas photographs explode with color as she captures the petals throughout their brief lifespan. In white and pink, illuminated by the sun, the moon, or Ninagawas flashlight, and contrasted by the blue of the sky, the green of leaves, or once they have begun to fall the brown of the ground, the cherry blossom petals flicker, overlap, and blur together so that, although still discernible as real, they seem like Impressionist paintings rather than photographs. The cover is dyed with a pigment extracted from cherry blossom petals collected along the Meguro River in Tokyo in April 2025"