When breathing in isn’t enough
Published BY WSOY, 2020Consolation sentences for anyone who sometimes has to focus only on survival. Just about anything can happen, to anyone, in any order. But even if everything feels crushing, survival is possible.
When deep breathing is not enough is a beautiful, strong and bright work, and it builds stairs away from the moments of despair each of us may have to experience. It supports and comforts in situations where not everything really seems to be getting organized, neither immediately nor maybe tomorrow.
The book is made up of miniature posters that remind you that sometimes even deep breathing can be too demanding. Unpretentious and honest phrases of comfort address and help in mercy to oneself, a life situation, or a difficult phase for a living loved one. Posters can be teared of and used for a wall or as post cards.
Unique, poetic, expressive, colorful, longing and touching is the work of multi-artist Meiju Niskala, which is not easy to describe verbally - it should be experienced for yourself. Each page of When Breathing In Isn’t Enough is also a small colorful poster that can be detached and attached to a wall to remind you that being human isn’t that easy, but you can figure it out. "I grow where there is space." Bold, abstract paintings and sentences comfort, understand and patch up. "Fear of falling." The birth history of the work is interesting, but one does not need to know, one can only rejoice that there are such books and writers. "This is not an emergency."
Kodiksamia Literature Prize