- Overview
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This picture book depicts one day in the life of an exhausted modern man with a wonderful imagination, offering warm support and consolation to modern men who need a moment of respite and relaxation.
- Book Intro
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How was your day today? This book creates a pause in our repetitive daily lives.
Swimming Days is a picture book that depicts one day in the life of an exhausted modern man with a wonderful imagination. He wants to break free from his repetitive daily life, and we follow him on a journey of healing. The short departure from the routine that he chooses is something that we've all done before. We can fully identify with him.
Indeed, modern life goes on and on in an endless cycle. But we should take a moment to take a breath and reflect on ourselves. This book creates a pause for modern men who need a moment of respite and relaxation, offering warm support and consolation in our busy everyday lives.
With temperate language and delicate pictures, the book delivers a message about freedom.
Swimming Days attracts our attention with pictures using clear blue tones, and even its cover feels cool and refreshing. This book shows how one man uses his five senses (sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch) to escape from his frustrating reality. We feel liberated as he swims by giving himself to the currents of water.
In fact, we all have certain rules of our own and it's difficult to break free from them. There are elements of architecture throughout the book, which creates geometrical beauty while conveying the frustrating reality of the space. In the most striking images, the man is standing inside a house that looks like an architectural plan or gazing at his company building in the middle of the night.
- About the Author
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Ahn Hyeyoung
Ahn Hyeyoung majored in Visual Design at Sookmyung Women's University and currently draws illustrations. Swimming Days is her first picture book. She does illustration for pictures books and other media, expressing the deeply heartfelt moments and emotions in her drawings. From America, she worked on Things We Took for Granted by recalling her precious memories of her daily life. While looking forward to returning to Korea in a more comfortable state of mind, she spends her time, drawing everyday.