PHOTO ZINE

Tokyo Kills Me Photo Zine: Glitch Blossom

Tokyo fragments, 2025

All images ©Aaron Paulson

A photo-caption sequence of disjointed bloom.
Concrete, code, pollen.
What remains when the season forgets itself.

Process

The captions came after the shutter.
Not descriptions — interruptions.
Written not to explain the images, but to resist them.

Each piece began as a haiku or tanka.
Not for tradition —
but for the discipline.
Seventeen syllables hold just enough space
for a fracture.
Five lines can contain a refusal.

Then came the breaking.
Language pulled apart.
Syntax dropped.
Meaning dislocated.
Fragments rearranged like petals on concrete.

The goal was not clarity.
The goal was tension.
Between image and word.
Between blossom and grid.
Between what the photo shows,
and what it refuses to say.