Working with the traditional platinum-palladium printing process and high-quality Japanese washi paper, Hisako Sakurai made a series of photographs that fluctuate between reality and dreamworld. Set in a dense yet luminous forest, the work centres on a group of emus, birds with grotesque eyes straight from the age of dinosaurs, photographed in an exploration of their strange, compelling elegance. A ballet dancer enters the scene, at first barely noticeable; through her poses and dress she blends almost seamlessly with the emus, and as the series unfolds dancer and birds engage in a quiet dialogue conveyed entirely through gesture. The afterword speaks of birds that chose the ground over the sky and hold their necks high as if tracing memories from the distant past, while dancers defy gravity and reach for the sky.