I am interested in memory in matter.

Just as a photograph fixes a passing moment in time, material also imprints the passage of time and events on its body.

For this work, he photographed pieces of glass and metal that he collected at the site of the fire. They were deformed by the heat of the flames and hardened with unique distortions and strains in the process of cooling by extinguishing the fire. Dust and debris are trapped inside the glass, which itself seems to physically preserve the memory of the fire and the time before the fire.

It is not only the fire itself that these materials record. They also contain traces of the scenes and scenes of people’s lives that existed here before the fire. They seem to be a device for imagining not only the fact that the site was destroyed, but also the rich daily life that existed before the fire.

By re-presenting these materials in photographic form, the work attempts to bring to light the memories and invisible time contained in the materials from a new perspective, and to make viewers reconsider their past lives and events.

On January 1, 2024, a magnitude 7.6 earthquake hit the Noto Peninsula region of Ishikawa Prefecture. In Wajima City, a fire caused by the earthquake destroyed the morning market, a famous tourist attraction. The glass and metal fragments used in this work were found at the site of the fire.