Daily Life, Below

Amami Oshima is a small island in southern Japan, largely unknown to the outside world. The island has a subtropical maritime climate and is the third largest in Japan.As the island is abundant in natural bounty, humpback whales visit every winter.

Whilst war rages on land, threatening our peaceful daily lives, life beneath the waves remains unchanged.

A world without walls, algorithms or nations.

The whales move freely between the islands, just as they always have.

This series was shot both above and below the water’s surface.

Above the surface, the whale’s tail fin vanishes beside the silhouette of the island.

Underwater, the whale sings and appears as a beam of light.

In the ocean, the whale’s song makes your whole body tremble!

Melting into the blue, its form becomes indistinguishable from the water itself.

Today, tomorrow, and the day after, we simply live on this Earth.

My work is centred around the keywords ‘Hiroshige Blue’ and ‘washi’. I value a liminal perspective that moves between the hidden and the visible, the surface and the depths, and reality and imagination.

By printing on washi, I cherish the way the image slowly seeps into the fibres and bleeds.