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Sand, on my glass

2023
Digital image

When thinking about making an image with Polaroid Camera, one probably cannot take Polaroid pictures while ignoring the nature of this object. What does the photograph as an object mean to me today? Or how can we use photography as a means of conveying information in today’s overflowing world of photography? These questions bring me back to my obsession with the texture of photography.

Having a background in life in a Japanese port area, I took my Polaroid Camera and once again walked around a nearby steel processing plant and attempted to photograph it. This is a city where big trucks come and go, and the air may not be the cleanest place in the world. There is always dust and steel materials piled up. The steel material reflects the sun’s rays and all the objects in the place are illuminated by each other. I feel that I have not yet come into my own just by taking pictures, so I draw on the pictures on my desktop as if I were wiping the dust from the window over the pictures I have taken. Going back and forth between the objects and the desktop, I felt the texture of the Polaroid Pictures finally become familiar to my body.

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