Changes don't come easily in our daily lives. Rather, they swing forth and back by inches. Our minds tag along after such fluctuations, floating up with weekday activities or sinking down while we rest on weekends. Landscape of outskirts Tokyo, in my view, embodies our resting state of mind during weekend, which is, in a way, monotonous, staid and non-stimulating. But I love such calmness and peacefulness. I tried to compose my photographs to depict stagnant times of our busy urban mind, using suburban Tokyo landscape as motif.
life. Questioning reality removes my prejudice and puts myself in a neutral viewpoint. By trying so and taking photographs, I think I can redefine the "true" world. We tend to be buried in our daily lives, taking many things for granted, seeing nothing unusual, and not doubting what is out there. However, I believe, our world is made up of multilateral layers and there always exists another perspective and you can see it once you free yourself. It will be my life work to find such perspective through photography.
