Day597【Boundary】

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

Day597【Boundary】

Who decided where reality ends?

DEAR naozo,

What

Do you call

Reality

That is what

I would ask

What stands

Before your eyes

What you can touch

What you can prove

Are those

The only things

That are real

Sometimes

I wonder

Memory

Imagination

The past

The future

None of them

Exist

Before our eyes

Memory

Has already passed

Imagination

Does not yet exist

We cannot

Return to the past

Nor can we

Touch the future

And yet

Memory wounds us

Imagination saves us

We carry the past

And desire the future

Things that seem

Not to exist

Still move us

Through the present

Then

Where does

Reality begin

And where

Does it end

What is visible

And invisible

What exists

And what does not

The boundary

Is not

As certain

As we believe

I think

We do not live

Only in what

Stands before us

We carry

The unseen

And live

In the present

So

Do not define

Reality too narrowly

Within you

There is a world

No eye can see

Carrying all of it

You

Are here

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.