It was at a scheduled blackout right after the 3/11 disaster that I became interested in streetlamps, a motif in my work. Looking up at the streetlamp that stood in town with no light on, I was impressed by their unique figures, which looked as if they were death masks of the electric light, an impression I could not avoid. After that, irresistibly drawn to this motif of the streetlamp, I found myself single-mindedly taking their photographs as a portrait, overlapping those streetlamps with the people who had influenced me as a persona in my life - my family and friends, people I got help from, and people I once gave my heart to. When I think back on it now, it may have been that I was thinking about what losing the people who were precious to us really meant.
― Artist statement
- stock nr
- NSB025 & NSB026
- author
- Keiju Kita
- title
- Máni (2016)
- artist(s):
- publisher
- Tosei – sha
- edition
- First edition
- width x height
- 238 mm x 310 mm
- ISBN
- 978-4-88773-169-1
- condition
- Excellent
- price:
- € 36 (excluding shipping)
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