WILD LIFE ーRecreating the Natural World
WILD LIFE ーRegenerating the Natural World I've come to think lately that my life is wild life itself. It's not an academic graduate student life, of course. Far from the quiet research life spent grappling with literature in the library from morning on. Nor is it the wild life of adventurers, travelers, or those who live in untamed environments. Not the style of traveling uncharted lands with a backpack on your shoulders. I've been expanding pesticide-free rice farming environments to construct photography. The total area I've worked on amounts to 7 chō. In the rice fields I've gradually expanded from one tan, I observe biodiversity practically while working on environmental restoration. A remarkable diversity of life returns to rice fields without pesticides. This is agriculture and simultaneously a verification site for photographic theory and the Theory of Micro-Phase Differences. From my house, I hear the sounds of wild birds—ducks, geese, snipes—frogs and ...