
terra
- Publisher
- Akaaka Art Publishing
- Year
- 2019
- ISBN
- 978-4-86541-093-8
- Specifications
- Hardcover
240 x 252 mm
128 pages
Following the face of the earth (terra) towards a landscape never seen before. A series made by asking how Japanese landscape would look if seen not on a human time scale but within the immense flow of time of the planet Earth. Aki Goto walks into the landscape and reacts to its rhythm: what catches the retina is not a place but light, time, colour, form, sound, temperature, smell and wind. Not a view to be taken in, but a landscape that sheds sentiment and the sense of deja vu and accepts constant change, where the accumulation of time and the instant, landscape and snapshot, cross violently. By translating the landscape seen by the naked eye into a flat photograph, the traces of time deposited in present light and landscape emerge, and he sees in them the fundamental beauty of a planet continuing from ancient times. The places are mostly tourist sites and mountains anyone can climb, seen as moving bodies like living things.