I consider the latent images we can find in objects through the various optical phenomena to be “memories” of objects, and I try to make these visible through the principles of photography. “Words of light” is a term that William Henry Fox Talbot used to express the relationship between photography and the nature from which photography originates, before spontaneous images captured by light came to be called photographs.

In our daily lives, there are objects that have holes in them due to the various ways we use them, their design, the activities of living creatures, or simply defects. Though ordinarily masked by other light, the images of light that are joined by the pinhole projection phenomenon (the principle of the pinhole camera) that occurs in these holes certainly exist in the here and now. It is as if the light is whispering a soliloquy without anyone noticing.

In this project, I will hunt for holes in Chiba City where the pinhole projection phenomenon occurs in cooperation with local residents. By fixing the light images projected by these holes (which are just a little too large to be called pinholes) onto photosensitive materials like film or photographic paper, I make visible the “words ​​of light” that are all around us.

Perhaps we can regard the act of capturing the light images produced by the pinhole projection phenomenon on various photosensitive materials as an act of translating the “words ​​of light” through different photographic languages. Rather than the creator of the images presented here, I would like to be a mediator or translator of the “words ​​of light.”

[Types of citizen involvement] Workshop Participation, Exhibition viewing