Máni
*
Máni
is the god of the moon in Norce
mythology.
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 streetlamps 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 streetlamps , 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 life̶my 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.
