Sweat-slicked skin, inked bodies, white fundoshi and flashes of bare flesh pressing against one another beneath the feverish Tokyo sun. Ornate irezumi ripples across backs and shoulders as bodies surge through the streets of Asakusa, carrying mikoshi through a crowd alive with heat, ritual and noise. It is here, amid the beautiful collision of the sacred and the unruly, that Sly Morikawa found the inspiration for her upcoming solo exhibition Dev…
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