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COSMOS UNDER MY FEET

7/31/2020

 
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Echinacea, Kawasaki, Japan 2020 (Print Size: 16 in x 24 in / 41 cm x 61 cm)
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Backyard, Kawasaki, Japan 2020 (Print Size: 16 in x 24 in / 41 cm x 61 cm)

例年は定期的に海外に出向いて作品づくりのための撮影をしていたが、今年の春以降はパンデミックのおかげでそのようなことが出来ていない。しかし、その替わりに、楽器に触れて音楽に親しむ時間ができたり、今後の作品づくりについて根本から見直す余裕が出てきている。コロナ禍の影響で外出することが少なくなったことが、昨年まで忙しく走り続けてきた私のライフスタイルを「あるべき姿」に変化させているようだと感じる。海外の宇宙スケールの大自然から、自分の足元に見える動植物の小さな生命活動に目を移すと、これはこれでまた素晴らしい宇宙の地平が展開しているのを発見する。そのような小さな被写体にカメラを向けると、小学生の頃、虫眼鏡で昆虫や草花を覗いたワクワク感が蘇ってくる。子供の頃、虫眼鏡や天体望遠鏡を覗いて目を丸くしたことが今の写真生活に繋がっているのかもしれない。どうも私は今でも「写真という虫眼鏡」で身の周りの世界を覗き見て、その不思議な光景にワクワクしているようなのだ。

In previous years, I used to go abroad regularly to take photographs to make artworks; but since this spring, I have not been able to do so due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, instead, the pandemic has given me valuable time to restart practicing flute music as well as to reconsider my future photographic themes and projects. The impact of the COVID-19 crisis has given me opportunity to change my lifestyle to what it should be, heading toward the future. As I shift my attention from the cosmic scale nature to the tiny life activities of plants and insects around me, I discover yet another wonderful cosmic horizon unfolding. When I point my camera around my feet, I can recall the thrill of looking at insects and flowers with a magnifying glass when I was in elementary school. Maybe, my childhood experience of looking through a magnifying glass and an astronomical telescope had led me to my current life in photography, for I am still thrilled by looking into the wonderful world through the magnifying glass called photography.



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