"Sumo Geisha Sashimi" and "Floating Bridge of Dreams" make up The Japan Project.
Inkjet prints on Asuka kozo papers, bound using traditional Japanese stab binding
No. 6 of 10
“Most of the photographs for this project were taken while on a trip to Japan in 2011. Sumo Geisha Sashimi consists of two sequences -- on each verso page a single photograph of a sumo match is repeated over and over through all the pages while zooming in on a solitary detail. In a complementary manner, a sequence of photographs taken during a period of about 20 minutes is presented on the recto pages. The intention was to take advantage of the book’s verso-recto form and create a correspondence among the images across the gutter and through the pages that would not have been possible if each sequence was presented alone.”
“A visual poem, Floating Bridge of Dreams is a presentation of images arranged in such a way as to provide associations and enhance their meaning as the pages are turned with an ineluctable drive toward the end...The different weight, drape, and texture of the papers enhance the haptic quality of the viewing experience.”
