The setting for this piece is Hogyoke-tei in Shozan, located north Kyoto. It is a place designed to welcome important guests, showcasing traditional Japanese architectural techniques.This magnificent “shoji” room harmonizes with nature and embodies the Japanese aesthetic of coexisting with a natural world. Visitors here engaged in a dialogue with nature, gain a humble self-awareness, and learn to respect others.This place also taught me the attitude I should take as an artist.

Most of my work involves capturing events in real-time from a fixed, static perspective. This piece was filmed continuously for about fifty minutes, from dark hours before dawn until the sun rose and brightened the surroundings. For the first three minutes, you probably won’t see almost nothing. But it is in the darkness that you’re most likely to feel some thing deeply. You’ll gradually sense the light slowly but surely filling the space. That light might even feel like a reflection of yourself.

This work will reset your biological clock, which has been thrown off by the busyness of daily life, back to nature’s original rhythm. It allows you to realize that the world is full of serene, flowing time various and changes.