写真の撮影は2008年の四川大地震の頃。救護部隊と一緒に震災地に行って報道写真を撮影しました。
地震の翌日から、軍人の緊急救護部隊が全部退出までずっと震災地で報道を続けていました。震災地行く最初の3日間はずっと泣いていた。見える人間も環境も物も全部絶望、悲しい、迷い……しかし、救護部隊は希望。人間の強さをかけて、絶望の人に希望を与える。其の後は絶望の所で新たる希望の笑顔。
震災地中の１ヶ月生活の影響で留学して写真の表現を研究した。その経歴の画面はずっと頭の中で思い出す、だからこの技法を使って、頭中のその瞬間を表す。
We come from nature and be the new part of it
Now, make your best effort to see the world with your eyes. So, could you see what your eyes look like? When asked "what do you think your eyes look like", I always pictured my eye at that moment from a vacant blank white.
In fact, I have never seen my iris with my own eyes, despite the fact that this actually fits the eye's role--the more it sees, the less it sees itself. So I start to doubt what I see. Isn't what I see in front of my eyes the reality? Even though, how much "reality" can our little black holes "fill"? From painting to beauty cameras, one of the evolving directions on technology is to cheat our own eyes.
Photos in Japanese means "writing the reality" literally. However in industry, we know "photos are the most beautiful lies", and visual effect are information picked by eyes and processed by brains. What we "see", so called, are just this processed version. So in dreams, there are always the vividness as if they are "real". Thus, how much we see are what we saw, and how much are what we want to see, or what saw but we chose not to see. Through these two little black holes of ours, what we actually see in reality?
Therefore, when we try to see our eyes, who can say the eyes pictured in our minds aren't our own eyes?
