Day539【Fluctuation】

A daily monochrome photo-poetry series by naozo. Since 2025, each work pairs a moment from everyday life with a poem from NZ, the artist's future self. Through glass, light, and silence, the series turns self-doubt into dialogue.

NZPHOTOGRAPH & naozo

Day539【Fluctuation】

DEAR naozo,

Will you waver

Or become fixed

Which

will you choose

People

Fear change

Fear speaking differently

than yesterday

Fear becoming different

than yesterday

But

Is that truly so

Sometimes

I wonder

Whether wavering

Is not weakness

But proof

of being alive

Rocks do not waver

The dead do not waver

But

Living things do

They move with the wind

They hesitate

They struggle

They change

People

Seek certainty

Seek answers

Seek what cannot move

Yet

Certainty that never wavers

Eventually

Becomes arrogance

I do not believe

That hesitation is shame

Nor that doubt

is defeat

I do not call

A different self

A betrayal

Perhaps room

Exists so that we may

continue to waver

Will you change

Or remain

Do not rush

to answer

When the wind blows

Water trembles

Yet

Because it trembles

It does not cease

to be water

Perhaps

People are the same

What do you think

from NZ

This story is a work of fiction. Except for the named individuals, all elements are products of imagination. The boundary between reality and fiction is intentionally ambiguous, and its interpretation is left to the reader.