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「朧月」a resplendent afterimage. 2022-23. [Handbound] Inkjet prints on kōzo and hemp paper, book board and book cloth. 20.3 x 25.4 x 0.6 cm. (8 x 10 x 0.25 in).
「朧月」a resplendent afterimage is a photo book consisting of images and text, which combines some text by me and several quoted phrases from Louis Aragon’s Paris Peasant (both the original French text and English translations of it). The text is a combination of English, Japanese, and French and are not translations of each other. Having grown up in a multilingual environment, I seek to emphasise and preserve the unique characteristics and nuances of each language to thereby decentralise the primacy of English as an institutional language. I used 'rephotographs', i.e. I printed my images and then photographed the prints, retaining every scuff mark and blemish accumulated on their surfaces, and used these new photographs in my book to convey a sense of objecthood. The photographs and words float in space, echoing the rhythm and pace that I took as I wandered in the world to capture these images and inviting viewers to do the same—to wander, to examine, and to discover a resplendent beauty in the minutiae of the world.
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