Remind me what I've forgotten (working title)

In today’s fast-changing world, many of us don’t stay where we grew up. As we move from one place to another, the memory of our past lives becomes a fluid terrain. It drifts, blurs and reshapes itself over time, leaving behind the residue of feeling. What remains are fragments: traces that layer and fade.

Taken during my returns to the countryside of Nagano, where I spent my summers growing up, these photographs form an ongoing meditation on remembering. Through familiar landscapes and quiet scenes of daily life, the images capture the fleeting impressions that accumulate with each visit. Working in monochrome, the pictures accentuate the subtleties of texture and light.

This continuing series is a part of my broader body of work that explores the themes of memory and identity.

(2021-ongoing)