“Le Parole della pioggia” (The Words of Rain) a beautiful story by Laura Imai Messina published by Einaudi Editore
The rain, in all its forms, is the true protagonist of this story: it creates atmospheres, awakens memories.
It is also the protagonist of the drawings I created — visual tales born from the infinite shades and reflections that a single drop of water can take on when multiplied endlessly.

In Tokyo, on rainy days, at the station exit there is a woman waiting with her umbrella already open, ready to walk alongside strangers. It’s a job, but also a ritual — a precious gesture of listening and care: under that circle that shields from the rain, the world comes to a halt.
Aya knows it well, as if she had always lived in the suspended time of clouds.
Laura Imai Messina has built a chorus of female voices that safeguard memory and protect what tends to slip away.
A metropolitan fairy tale rooted in the heart of Japanese legends, drawing from that ancient matter the unexpected shape of something new.