
Heliotropic Landscape
- Publisher
- Sokyusha
- Year
- 2023
- Specifications
- Hardcover, colour
270 x 305 mm
70 pages
56 images
Limited edition of 350 copies
Edited by Michitaka Ota
Design: 加藤勝也
Essay by Masafumi Fukagawa
Printing: 株式会社サンエムカラー
Driven by an understanding of nature not as a separate entity from human existence but as one that includes humans and their activities, Tamami Terasaki's photographs reengage and redefine the genre of landscape, offering challenging and fresh perspectives, conceptual and visual. For this series Terasaki went into forest-covered mountains to photograph the views, sceneries and landscapes presented there. In the afterword Terasaki describes wandering in dense woods, struck by a dizzying uneasiness with no fixed point of view in which the sense of existence and consciousness becomes vague, until the sun glistens down and the murmuring of things in complete harmony can be heard. In his essay Wandering Gaze, Masafumi Fukagawa writes that the magnetic fields of historicity and meaningfulness are eliminated in advance: the flat images suggest no elements for analysis, yet do not reject the viewer's gaze and have a depth that gently absorbs it, so that a different view emerges for each viewer.