Artist Statement
Artist Statement I am a photographer. Forty years ago, I came to Kyushu Island to photograph it. Since then, I have continued to travel across the island. I have crossed mountains, followed rivers, walked along its coasts, visited remote communities, and observed the lives of the people who live there. At the center of my way of seeing is the Ariake Sea. The Ariake Sea is known for its extraordinary tidal range. A place that is sea at high tide becomes a vast mudflat at low tide. There is no fixed landscape. Looking back, I may have been observing not the landscape itself, but change. As I continued photographing, a question gradually emerged. Can a single photograph truly describe the world? A photograph is a fragment of reality. No matter how compelling an image may be, it records only a single moment. The world never stands still. The same place. A slightly different moment. A subtly altered point of view. Between such images exists information that cannot be per...