Staying in Time

This work was created with preserved salt at Salt Road Chojiya, which maintains the history of Omachi as a settlement that flourished as a post town on the Chikuni Kaido trade route. Yamamoto worked with the tradition of the kawagoshi dolls of tanabata, explaining, “I have been drawing with salt, which evokes ideas about purification and cleansing, as a means to retain the precious memories of people who left me at a young age, and as a prop to fight against forgetting, creating a bridge of memories transcending time and space.”