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｢天の川｣ sea tiles: memories of the tides. 2025. Black and light grey riso ink on washi. 10 x 16 cm. (3.94 x 6.30 in).
This photo book is a reflection on and in accompaniment of my larger, sculptural waterfall flipbook《起伏》sea tiles: dreaming tides, gathering and unravelling, which took the form of a waterfall flipbook. It comprised photograms that I made at sea under moonlight over multiple days. I travelled to the beach at night, plunged photosensitive paper into the water, activated my flash, and then developed the prints in a darkroom the next morning. Each photogram is a record of the sea, capturing its energy and the environmental conditions of that precise moment, isolating a fleeting instant amidst ceaseless tidal cycles, at once eternal and ever-changing.
To make this current book, ｢天の川｣ sea tiles: memories of the tides, I scanned those photograms and then reproduced them via risograph printing, employing white ink on black paper to mimic the gesture of activating the flash amidst the darkness of the night.
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