Vanessa Holyoak: I See More Clearly in the Dark

Second Edition:ISBN 978-1-953189-17-2E-ISBN 978-1-953189-18-9March 2025, English, 5 x 8 in, 162 pages, b&w, softcover First Edition:ISBN 978-1-953189-10-3May 2023, English, 5 x 8 in, 162 pages, b&w, softcoverDesign: Sming Sming Books I See More Clearly in the Dark chronicles the experiences of a narrator referred to only as “I” as she wanders a dystopian near-future drained of life-sustaining darkness—the kind that Japanese novelist Juni'chirō Tanizaki imagines "beneath trees that stand deep in the forest." This ethical and ecological desecration is lived out simultaneously by a parallel “I”: an amorphous, prehistoric or posthuman body, living and dreaming in a lush and tenebrous wilderness. The government has decided to wipe out national forests to install brilliant, homogenous resorts in which citizens are obliged to live under conditions of total illumination, the forest's expansive darkness remaining only as a memory and haunting source of imagination. When her lover is re