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It began as a distortion of scale—something that didn’t belong.Driving through the flat farmland of Ibaraki toward the P...
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The digital archive flickered. 2005. Miyazaki.In the photo, I am standing in the humid, salt-heavy glare of the coast, g...
essay The Blue That Stayed
Hokkaido, the early 2000s. The gunmetal Impreza was caked in grey dust. I killed the engine at the cliff’s edge. The sil...
essay Lake Ikeda — 31°13′ N
The ObjectThis Mini-Cho-chin is a hybrid: a plastic frame with paper surfaces. The color is a fluorescent neon green. On...
essay Sapporo Susukino – 1995 Pink
The Storage RoomThis Mini-Cho-chin has been kept in a dark storage room for thirty years. Because it was shielded from l...
essay Fancy Soya — 45°31′ N
Two Objects1,000 items. 30 years. My collection contains two records of Soya Misaki. One is a sober lantern marked with ...
essay 45°31′ N – The Arithmetic of Arrival – 1,500 Kilometers to Witness a Deserted Monument
The Coordinate1,000 items. 30 years. And a single, cold numeric: 45°31′ N. To reach this point in 1995, I endured 1,000 ...
essay The City That Refuses to Be Held
Kilometer Zero and the Weight of 1,000 Vanishing Symbols1,000 items. 30 years. And finally, I arrived at the center of t...
essay The Last Witness of a Vanished Japan
An Uncounted Archive and the Fading Memory of the Road1,000 items. 30 years. More than 40,000 kilometers driven.To be ho...