Uetsugu Kotomi

Human memory is very vague and uncertain. Have you ever had the feeling that you are looking at something, but actually you are not looking at anything? I was interested in such mechanisms as human false memories and recall errors in which we remember something but cannot recall it, and I thought...

Human memory is very vague and uncertain. Have you ever had the feeling that you are looking at something, but actually you are not looking at anything? I was interested in such mechanisms as human false memories and recall errors in which we remember something but cannot recall it, and I thought and attempted to visualize them with photographs. Later, that act became a turning point, laying the foundation for "what kind of visual changes can be seen by photographing ordinary objects in our daily lives. As I proceeded, "ordinary things" were positioned in my mind as things that existed in anonymity or anonymity. Such things and moments do not belong to anyone's memory, but they are clearly there and live with us today. The realization of how we usually see or do not see things around us motivated this work. This work is an immediate view of things, conscious of the need to provoke visual curiosity. It induces the viewer to turn a sensory lens on things that are not remembered by anyone, and to look at the object and the environment that surrounds it.