In this age of sudden onset of illness, I felt that the near future that I had envisioned was shaking beneath my feet. The future image, which should have been clear, reveals the fragility of the grounds on which it stands. However, envisioning a bright future beyond the uncertain present, marking time, and continuing to move forward are the activities of a life that aims for the "limit of what is possible" in the midst of unstoppable time. In this work, flowers grown in Higashi Izu-cho were photographed over a six-week period in different lighting conditions, with the camera in the same position, as they bloom and wither with the passage of time. I used a camera with excellent color reproduction and a low-resolution lens to depict the flowers, creating a sense of future opaqueness by reducing the amount of information and using a multiple-exposure technique to combine the passage of time into a single photograph. I chose a white background to suggest that the future is still a blank sheet of paper, but I felt that the strength of the subject matter was insufficient, so I created a "past image" against a black background to support the work or to serve as a counterpart to the reverse side, and finished the work in response to it.
