A series of black-and-white photographs originally taken and exhibited in the 1980s. Shot in the depths of a forest, they accompany a young woman in traditional Japanese clothes as she moves through the woods and takes in the surrounding nature as if it were a forgotten part of her. The world that emerges from Takashi Hara's pictures is both fantastical and grounded in reality, and expresses a sensual, mysterious and subtly Japanese vitality. Looking at the work again forty years later, Hara realised that it is not a fictional world but, in essence, documentary: the personal beginning, the point of departure that led to the photographer he is today.