Guardian Deity

This series of works explores the theme of different countries and cultures intersecting and weaving a common story across time and space.

Legendary connections between Japan and the Middle East are sometimes talked about.

By synthesizing the landscapes of the two lands, we created a world as if these lands were part of a single story.

Technically, multiple exposure imaging of photographs is used. Different landscapes are layered over and over, and mask processing has also been partially used, but we aimed for visuals that can be naturally accepted as one new landscape.

In this series of works, I'm trying to visualize the fact that the world we live in is connected by invisible threads.

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These guardians have been guarding for over 2,000 years.

Arabian and Japanese landscapes expressed through multiple exposure processing,

A landscape photograph that cannot be found anywhere else in the world, but it certainly exists.

Signed. Museum print 589mm wide x 269mm high

FM plate backed panel with clogs

This is an actual work exhibited at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum and the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art.