This book is a collection of 77 letters received by the artist in reply to his incessant applications over a period of three years. From these most prosaic documents a kind of bittersweet poetry emerges, a sustained and repetitive meditation on the politics and the poetics of rejection.

Author: Atsuhide Ito (b. 1966, Shizoka) is a sensitive and stubborn Japanese artist and anthropologist, who lives in London and works predominantly in the area of painting and performance. He drags his daughter to exhibitions as often as she drags him to playgrounds.