Murakami: Ego book book Tapping into the shoe’s basketball

Tapping into the shoe’s basketball roots

Brian Anderson

Also going by the name ‘Sequoia’ (for the Sequoia-green base color) or ‘UNDFTD’ (because of it’s resemblance to the well-known ‘UNDFTD x Air Jordan 4’)

The sneaker’s titular hue appears on the collar lining

Over the last two decades

Murakami: Ego book book Tapping into the shoe’s basketballA comprehensive volume overseen by the artist himself on one of the most renowned living artists today, Takashi Murakami. Takashi Murakami is celebrated the world over for his deft blurring of high and low art. In this volume, accompanying a major exhibition of his work and the first in the Middle East, readers are immersed in the unique way Murakami channels the ecstasy and anxiety of contemporary culture. Conceived by the artist as a self portrait