UTSUROI

I recorded Honshu in taking pictures from 2001 to 2003. With very hard efforts driving Tohoku region to Chugoku as well as around my home in Sizuoka prefecture, I could barely find Japan-like sceneries which intrigued my sense of seasons. I was searching for the eternity of Japan, which should be common landscapes in countryside once everybody saw, only to find the artificially changed, ugly landscapes. I sometimes wanted veil my eyes in front of them and my eyes wandered into the space. So, what I grasped in 'utsuroi,' a sense of changing, is not only the transition of four seasons but also the transition of ages in Japan.