Alison Turnbull takes Japanese author Yukio Mishima’s novel Spring Snow as a starting point to produce Spring Snow − A Translation, which is literally a visual translation ordered by colour. Drawing on Mishima’s evocative use of colour in the novel, Turnbull condenses the narrative into a colour palette. Working from the English edition, she isolates and orders each of the more than six hundred colours as they appear in the text − what emerges is a visual essay on the nature of translation.

In the introduction − which in turn is translated into Japanese − novelist Tony White creates a narrative remix of cut-ups from various sources, reflecting on Turnbull’s work and its relationship to the life and work of Kimitake Hiraoka, also known as Yukio Mishima.

著者のAlison Turnbullは、三島由紀夫の小説「春の雪」を題材にし、それを色によって翻訳するという過程を通して本書を制作した。三島由紀夫が小説内で書く喚情的な色の描写を、カラーパレットに集約させた。英訳版を使い、テキスト内に出てくる600以上の色を抽出、並べるという作業で翻訳の本質に則ったビジュアルエッセイを生み出した。
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