"When we were young, our personalities were at odds, and our connection felt distant. After losing our mother to cancer in our late teens, we faced grief together, and over time, a deeper understanding slowly took root. Photographing my sister became a way to acknowledge the transformation of that bond-how years of silence, conflict, and care have shaped a fragile but enduring closeness...."
"In this work, I combined portraits of my sister with quiet studies of the surrounding landscape-fields, snow, and sea. The snow scenes are especially resonant: Niigata's long winters and record snowfalls shaped our sense of time and endurance, where the world often disappeared under layers of white. These snowscapes serve as metaphors for memory itself-mutable, obscured, yet softly glowing just below the surface."
The series centers on a sibling relationship shaped by childhood distance, conflict, and eventual closeness following the death of their mother. Portraits of the sister are paired with quiet landscape studies of fields, snow, and sea in a small coastal hometown in Niigata. Long winters and heavy snowfall are depicted as shaping endurance and a sense of time, with snowscapes functioning as metaphors for mutable, obscured memories that glow beneath the surface. The nearby Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant and the aftermath of Fukushima infuse the scenery with nostalgia and anxiety, making beauty inseparable from unease. The title references hours of piano practice after school.
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