Pawel Jaszczuk, Salaryman

Salaryman

Pawel Jaszczuk

Publisher
Mörel Books
Year
2009
ISBN
978-1-907071-14-0
Specifications
Saddle-stitched stapled zine
Screen-printed chiyogami cover
13.5 x 20 cm
32 pages
150 copies

Salaryman is a Japanese term suggesting the white-collar worker. It also carries associations of long working hours, low prestige in the corporate hierarchy, wage slavery, and karo-shi (death by overwork). After working overtime six days a week, one would assume the only relief would be the age-old tradition of existential purging - and thus, these men drink till they drop. The artist has spent the last months, at ungodly hours seeking these hopeless leftovers of a night on a binge. The zine is covered by intricate Chiyogami (Japanese hand screen printed paper), but once past this apparent, contrasting, cover up of appearances, one finds a wasteland of sprawled out workers - the true expense of the corporate Juggernaut.

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