What Happened in Art This Week | Mar 9, 2026
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Kohei Sugiura ‘Zen Uchu Shi’ （1979） Prompt Pantry | Odds & Ends
A book can hide a galaxy in its edge.
Published in 1979, Kohei Sugiura’s Zen Uchu Shi (Summa Cosmographica) turns star charts, data, and text into a reading environment. It does not simply visualize information. It reprograms how the eye moves: density becomes navigation, overprinting becomes time, and the page becomes a field you cross rather than a surface you consume.
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Why are goldfish beautiful, yet unsettling?
Why do goldfish so often make us uneasy?
They are undeniably beautiful, yet their beauty can feel manufactured.
They live inside transparent containers, as if they are allowed to exist, and also permanently watched.
In this issue, we use the goldfish as a way to ask a few questions:
What kinds of meaning have humans projected onto goldfish?
Why do they so often carry a dreamlike, specimen-like, even corpse-like feeling?
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