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This series called "tokyo layers" is the work that has been taken the landscape of Tokyo from the moving observatory elevator with a combination of long-time exposure and multiple exposure.
I think that the city's landscape is an appearance including achievements and stains which the past era has left behind. Sometimes I feel to be able to see through the past as afterimage in a few tens of seconds which was cut at the time of photographing by appearance and stacking of unique and countless "tokyo layer". From among my works, I hope that you will be able to feel the sense of speed which time goes and recognize the fact that individuals and their life are forming by the accumulation of continuous time. And also you will see that the characteristic of the society which individuals belong and the appearance of the city where individuals are living are forming by the passage of time. You will recognize the fact that we are helpless against the flow of time too.
I had started to produce this series from the day of six days before the great east japan earthquake. Subsequently, we have lived in the well-lit city and continued to maintain its functions in exchange for great sacrifice and loss. Each time I was taking photos of it, I felt deplorable with hesitation and bad aftertaste about it. And I looked back at my way of life and asked myself how the appearance of both myself and the society have changed or not. And it is true that the judgment what we leave as good things and discard as evil things is entrusted in our intention living today. It must be with universality and timeless awareness without ephemerality and self-righteous.
