Light as a Trace

  • Dates
    2015 - Ongoing
  • Author
  • Topics Fine Art
  • Location Japan

What we see in fireworks is often the moment of their bloom. This project turns away from that instant, following instead what continues beyond it—where light begins to lose its form and become something else.

This project isolates light as a trace—something that exists only at the moment of its disappearance.

Using long exposure and camera movement, fireworks are approached not as events, but as residues of energy. Each image records a movement that cannot be repeated, shaped by both intention and chance.

What remains is not a fixed form, but a fragment of something already gone.


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Light as a Trace by Shota Nagase

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