Chasing the Vanish

As an extension of the previous glacier series, this new work records the time of a disappearing presence.

A small fragment separated from a vast glacier is brought into an everyday environment, allowing its transformation to be observed at a much closer distance. The once-solid crystal gradually loses its form and fades away under the ordinary temperature of daily life.

Through this process, the work compresses the time of what is happening to us now—and what may happen in the future.

This work documents the shimmering beauty of glaciers—entities that are now gradually disappearing. I believe photography is the medium that can most clearly testify that they once truly existed.

During three journeys, I walked on the glaciers, touched them, and entered their interiors. The immense landscapes unfolding before me felt almost eternal. Yet after stepping outside, the scenes of collapse, the echoing sounds, and the news that they were rapidly disappearing revealed a reality very different from the emotions I had felt within. The beauty undeniably exists, but it must be confronted alongside the fact that it is already diminishing and breaking apart.

This work attempts to hold both the eternity of beauty and the moment of its disappearance. It speaks about the many forms of nature that are vanishing, the things that undeniably exist on this planet yet feel distant from our daily lives, and the presences that become taken for granted simply because they are far away.

By capturing a beauty that one wishes could be preserved forever, I hope it may remain as a lasting light within our memory.