“A blink”
Monochrome, 55 prints (excluding cover), baryta paper
I always blink when I look at images that will disappear.
I cut away, and then look again. The parallel passage of time and the gazes and breathing of people.
While tracing parallel lines, the lines become quiet.
Is this a blink?
Is it a record?
Is it a trip?
Is it a dream?
Or is it a blink after all?
Blink, like breathing.
Blink, like working.
Blink, like loving
Close one’s eyes, like screaming
Then blink.
Through some connection, a single line is joined.
I want it to join with an even larger and thicker connection.
2004: Entered the photography program at the Department of Information Design at Kyoto University of Art and Design
Selecting judge: Daido Moriyama
This work made me strangely anxious. The photographs are like after-images that you catch from the corner of your eye, and for some reason this affected me deeply.
The situations in each photograph are not connected in any particular way, yet they make you feel as though you’ve been staring at the outside world from the window of the same vehicle for a long time. The moments accumulate, and connect as after-images. You also get a strong sense of the intrinsic power that photographs possess.
The format of this book also has a big effect. It is interesting that small prints are arranged in rows in identical fashion, so that only the world being depicted changes. If the prints had been larger, it might not have had the same effect. It seems subdued and subtle, but it actually isn’t. It somehow awakens memories in the person looking at it, and this was the overwhelming impression it left on me.
