Vivian Sming: If you see me, weep.

PLEASE NOTE: Covers are unique suminagashi prints and will be selected at random. June 2023, English, 4 x 4 in., box with 10 loose-leaf foliosUnique suminagashi cover printed at San Francisco Center for the Book, CA.Edition of 100 If you see me, weep. takes its title from “hunger stones,” five-hundred-year-old boulders with engravings that mark severe droughts and famine, which have recently surfaced in the Elbe River running through Central Europe. All over the world, ruins, relics, and remains are emerging due to historic-level droughts: Buddhist statues in the Yangtze River, a nineteenth century village in a reservoir in Wales, skeletons in Lake Mead, plane wreckages in the melted glaciers of Switzerland, and more. The relics serve as cautionary tales, yet at the same time, reveal long-buried, ignored, or unknown histories. They offer a stark glimpse of our present and nearing challenges, while simultaneously offering clues to a formerly uninvestigated past. Despite the bleak cond