Margaret Mitchell

At Japan House humanity has arrived at the perfect future: food for ogling, not eating

Imagine a world in which supplements cater to our nutritional needs and food becomes nothing more than a pretty plastic ornament, devoid of calories and free from vice

The beady, black eyes of the shoal of plastic prawns looked up at me, somehow even more horrible for having never been alive [Masuda Yoshirо for Japan House]

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