Opening of “Contours of Change”

exhibition

6 Apr

Tomorrow, Contours of Change opens — if you’re around Kyobashi this week, come say hi and take a look.

The premise is simple: nature is never still, even when it looks quiet. Wind, water, temperature, time — the world keeps rewriting its own outline.

I’m showing four photographs. They come from the kind of moments you don’t plan for, even if you spend your life trying to be ready for them.

One of the pictures at the gallery was made on a winter morning in the Tokamachi area. Snow held to the tops of the trees, and a pale fog folded the background into silence. I had to stop the car quickly — not because it was dramatic, but because it was about to be gone. That’s the joke with landscapes: they look like they’ll wait for you, and they never do. Sometimes you catch it. Most times, it’s already gone.