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The Views of Magic Lantern
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PROJECT TITLE: Bonds of Life – The Views of Magic Lantern
MEDIUM: 6x6 color negatives, chromogenic prints
SUMMARY: The collection is composed of landscapes of my hometown and portraits of my family that represent the bonds we share in life.
We always have a place where we are tied. We all have a birthplace and I believe there’s a special bond or force there. We feel enveloped and relieved by the force as we stand there. I find that the scenery is not what a traveller sees as a passing sight; it provides a rich energy to those who take a moment to stop and look around.
When I visit my hometown few times a year, I take photographs of seasonal scenery within walking distance from home, either by myself or together with my mother and my daughter. Paths I walked on during my childhood days, the shrine where I used to play near, at the top of the hill, and Lake Suwa, a place that can be seen no matter where you stood. Sometimes the figure of my daughter overlaps with myself when I was small. Sometimes the figure of my mother overlaps with Grandmother. When the three of us – my mother, my daughter and myself - stand on the land where we were born, I feel the bond with the soil from ancient days and the sensation of being well protected by the unknown that wraps me. I capture the scenery that comes across my eyes when I feel the sensation. It is as though it’s an image on a lantern that is pale and fragile, and disappears in an instant.
Exhibition/Selection/Insertion – Overseas
2015: Critical Mass Finalist
2015: “Fraction of a Second exhibition,” University of New Mexico Art Museum (NM,USA)
2015: “Regarding Beauty with juror Kathleen Clark,” Center for Fine Art Photography (CO, USA)
2014: “Open with juror Shane Lavelette,” Center for Fine Art Photography (CO, USA)
“Fraction Magazine – Issue 66,” “NM, USA)
“Review Santa Fe 100,” Center (NM, USA)
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PROJECT TITLE: Bonds of Life – The Views of Magic Lantern
MEDIUM: 6x6 color negatives, chromogenic prints
SUMMARY: The collection is composed of landscapes of my hometown and portraits of my family that represent the bonds we share in life.
We always have a place where we are tied. We all have a birthplace and I believe there’s a special bond or force there. We feel enveloped and relieved by the force as we stand there. I find that the scenery is not what a traveller sees as a passing sight; it provides a rich energy to those who take a moment to stop and look around.
When I visit my hometown few times a year, I take photographs of seasonal scenery within walking distance from home, either by myself or together with my mother and my daughter. Paths I walked on during my childhood days, the shrine where I used to play near, at the top of the hill, and Lake Suwa, a place that can be seen no matter where you stood. Sometimes the figure of my daughter overlaps with myself when I was small. Sometimes the figure of my mother overlaps with Grandmother. When the three of us – my mother, my daughter and myself - stand on the land where we were born, I feel the bond with the soil from ancient days and the sensation of being well protected by the unknown that wraps me. I capture the scenery that comes across my eyes when I feel the sensation. It is as though it’s an image on a lantern that is pale and fragile, and disappears in an instant.
About author:
Born in 1967 in Nagano, Japan. A qualified architect who studied interior design and architecture, she started to create photographic works from the year 2000 through her encounters with architectural photography. Then in 2014, she was selected as one of a hundred photographers at Review Santa Fe in the USA.Exhibition/Selection/Insertion – Overseas
2015: Critical Mass Finalist
2015: “Fraction of a Second exhibition,” University of New Mexico Art Museum (NM,USA)
2015: “Regarding Beauty with juror Kathleen Clark,” Center for Fine Art Photography (CO, USA)
2014: “Open with juror Shane Lavelette,” Center for Fine Art Photography (CO, USA)
“Fraction Magazine – Issue 66,” “NM, USA)
“Review Santa Fe 100,” Center (NM, USA)
BACK TO GALLERY
