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01a.

haru.quest — vol. 1, no. 1 — a riso-printed almanac of spring — set in Big Shoulders, Anton, Archivo & JetBrains Mono — two inks (Petal #FF3D6E + Ink #0A0A0A) on Newsprint Cream — printed overnight, registration approximate, corrections in margin — ❧ all flowers rendered in one channel — do not adjust your screen, the misregistration is intentional — proof copy, not for distribution — turn the page —

CB.
01.

HARU

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01b.

春 — the season that breaks the parking lot

FN.1 — magnolia ×
02b.

✿ haru.quest is not a website, it is a proof sheet that escaped the studio. Five bento boards, each a complete composition, each rearranging the same vocabulary of poems, pressed flowers, footnotes and manifestos. The grid is visible. The grid is the protagonist. Watch it get made, broken, and remade. Scroll is a page turn. The cursor is a registration cross. Every flower is one ink. Every mistake is an assertion.

SPRING
PROOF
№1
02.

FIELD
GUIDE

FN.2 — prunus serrulata
FG.01

✿MAGNOLIA × soulangeana. Blooms before its leaves. A goblet on a bare branch. Smells faintly of lemon and ozone. Field note: arrives during a cold snap, on purpose, to prove a point.

FG.02

✿DANDELION, pressed. A clock with no hands. Catalogued as a weed; behaves like a firework. Field note: do not blow on the specimen sheet.

FG.03

✿WISTERIA, vine. Grows faster than the trellis can be built. A purple waterfall stuck mid-fall. Field note: structural; will lift a porch roof if encouraged. Pairs with patience and regret in equal measure. Cut hard in winter.

footnote 3 —
SEE
FIG.
2
p.002 — haru — proof
03.

PRESSING

FN.3 — taraxacum, pressed flat
PR.a ¥ 3.40

a clock with no hands /
the wind takes the time away /
nothing owes us spring

PR.b

✿ Pressing flattens a season into a sheet. The colour stays. The smell goes. The shape becomes evidence. We keep the evidence and call it an archive.

PR.c

specimen weight: negligible — moisture: zero — provenance: a sidewalk crack, undated — condition: defiant —

flatten, but do not silence
DO
NOT
BEND
p.003

BLOOM

RN.1

this is a hostage note. spring has the city. it is not negotiating.

RN.2

cut the ribbon /
the magnolia does not care /
about the ceremony

DEMANDS:

1. open every window. 2. forgive the weeds. 3. stop apologising for the colour pink.

RN.4

a ransom note is just a manifesto with worse handwriting. ours is set in four fonts because we could not agree, and disagreement is the point. do not pay. just bloom.

NO
RANSOM
JUST
SPRING
— signed, the camellia —
p.004 — !!!
05.

CATALOG

FN.5 — wisteria sinensis
CAT.01

✿Specimen 01 — MAGNOLIA. Acc. no. HQ-001. Collected: a parking lot, March. Notes: broke the asphalt. Filed under: arguments.

CAT.02

✿Specimen 02 — CHERRY. Acc. no. HQ-002. Collected: everywhere, briefly. Notes: gone before you finished looking. Filed under: regret.

CAT.03

✿Specimen 03 — DANDELION. Acc. no. HQ-003. Collected: a sidewalk crack. Notes: refused to be a weed. Filed under: defiance.

CAT.04

✿Specimen 04 — CAMELLIA. Acc. no. HQ-004. Collected: exploded, reassembled. Notes: see Stage 4. Filed under: chaos.

CAT.05

✿Specimen 05 — WISTERIA. Acc. no. HQ-005. Collected: the trellis, all of it. Notes: lifted the porch roof. Filed under: consequences. End of catalog. Turn the page back. The grid is rebuilt. Spring is filed.

— colophon —

haru.quest — proof copy — printed in Petal & Ink on Newsprint Cream — ❧ set overnight — registration approximate — corrections welcome — fin —

FILED
HQ
2026
p.005 — fin