ARTIST STATEMENT

Collection

I often observe familiar townscapes and roadside.
I realize that there are lots of life in places no one notices.
Generally speaking it was a kind of garbage.

All of them, things with form are certainly disappearing, things with life are definitely going to die.
When I captured the last figure in the photograph, I decided to freeze the time and to keep it forever.

I think that staring at the shade is equivalent to accepting the preciousness of life.
I stared straight, and also I made a stage right then and photographed with the sunlight.
I wanted to photograph even the soul.
Eventually they became my precious treasures one by one as “Collection”.

Entries form: 30 560 x 60 mm prints and eight 1100 x 1500 mm prints on HC-FPL300MC SiHL Lustre Photo Paper, total of 38 items