東京工芸大学　芸術学部フェスタ2020　電子図録

Department of Photography SAKAI Takahiko Majoring in Commercial Photography, Department of Photography, Faculty of Arts, Tokyo Polytechnic University Member of the Contemporary Artists Association and Japan Universities Association for Computer Education Solo exhibitions, exhibition of work, numerous publications of work in magazines, etc. This is an experimental piece with which I explored how to naturally reproduce the scene of a goddess of salvation suddenly appearing before me as I wander and lose my way in a deep forest. A person’s memory is ambiguous, even to oneself, and when it comes to reproducing it, that makes it difficult to do so even with techniques for tinkering with images. Here, I didn’t actually wander through the forest, but I worked to process it that way, and to create that memory. The setting of the story is purely fantasy, but the experiment is to see how realistic that moment can be depicted by giving it a concrete form. You may think that if you were confronted with a goddess, there would be a shining halo of light, and that it would surely be a sublime encounter. But for a girl who doesn’t look like she belongs in this place at all, the unnaturalness of her existence as though it were a matter of fact is actually more realistic. The piece has also been influenced by the backdrop of the coronavirus crisis: just as we thought it would be over with soon, that was not the case at all; there is no escape, and we carry on day after day, saying something about “after corona” even though no one knows what the answer is. Amidst the chaos, everyone just wants it to end. If there is an end, what will that end look like? Perhaps it will be something unexpected like this. Abyss the 2020 Faculty of Arts Festival FESTA-02 Artwork 52