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MOTHER
A blast furnace, which is the main facility in the steel-making factory, is compared to a mother’s womb. All of the Japanese workers say “Iron has life”. I documented the succession of their skills to make the beautiful steel.
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Hands to a Mass
The automobile represents Japanese industry. Dies do supply thousands of their parts precisely. Steel sheets continuously turn to be same auto parts by die press. In die-maker factory, the engineers seem to treat the materials like living things.
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Touch the forest, touched by the forest.
This is a document about the relation between human beings and nature in the Japanese medical facility. Most of the mental hospitals are strictly closed. I covered a hospital trying to be open in the forest.
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A woman meets a shrine.
This woman is German and temporarily worked at a shrine. Japan has its own sense of beauty, expressed through its posture and gestures. Beauty in Japan is not dependent on race. She shows it.
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ongoing project
Aging, so what?
Dementia is not an object to be resisted, but an existence to be accepted. Those who have dementia can live freely. I am watching the aging of the people and the structures in Japan.
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ongoing project
x elements of
Human and Gods, Change and Adoption, Industry and Nature, Passing and Accumlating. Izumo region has an unique culture including ancient steel-making technique. Photographing the climate and earth there.
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