Bird Pit

Bird Pit is a book made up of a drawing series of ‘Portraits of the Ugly’. It portrays the people who are dissatisfied with everything and express their complaints in their own way. Those individuals are like a repressed birds trapped in a cage. SW.Kim draws those figures as if seen from a bird’s view.  - pimple (publisher) SW. Kim’s staple-bound and offset-printed Bird Pit comes across first as lovably random, then as wryly tongue-in-cheek. This color book depicts a population of caricatured curmudgeons, who seem constantly unhappy regardless of their activity, be it feasting on a steak, watching porn, or reading a book titled How to Survive. The pages weave between individual character portraits dotted across ample blank space, in which each of these moderately deformed figures seems insurmountably isolated from the other, and scenes of their dysfunctional civilian everyday, with tents catching on fire during camping trips and free hugs being given out (with no takers, apparently) al