MID and Ground are two separate volumes published simultaneously, quite different in content but like twins for the artist, both pointing towards something dynamic and heady. Ground develops from a pair of original works, details of which are extracted and combined in collage: energy that is dismantled, extracted and transformed recalls a white-hot matrix and expresses the flow in which life is born, returns to the earth and is born again. In the smaller Ground, a reddish-gold vision of objects, creatures and things presents a world seemingly ungrounded and free-falling through a matrix of textures and contours. The use of a ribbon to bind the loose sheets together also indicates fluidity and disorientation. Presenting two such distinct bodies of work at the same time points to the large trajectory of evolution Cozue Takagi seems to be on, moving through different modes of expression.