Aoyama vanished in 2000. No social media. No gallery. Only rumors: a fire in an apartment block in Suginami, a move to rural Hokkaido, a conversion to digital art under a new name.
The Milky Cat DMC 25 collection, if reassembled, would show a narrative: a cat fleeing a burning print shop (pinter #279 being the last surviving index card), carrying a strawberry through 24 dreams, and finally, in piece 25, lying down in a field of digital snow. Aoyama vanished in 2000
: That sounds like a specific product, maybe a printer model. DMC could stand for Digital Mini Printer, or maybe Data Management, but not sure. "Milky Cat" might be a brand or a model name. a move to rural Hokkaido