STATE OF GLORY
Photo Book
2017-2020

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* Featured in the Financial Times, AnOther Magazine, SLEEK Magazine, Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin
I remember being in Tokyo, and having to leave the country just when the first cherry blossoms started to open. Without actually seeing the blossoms in their full bloom, I could feel the energy and electricity that were already filling the air - the collective excitement of something that can seem so mundane, yet year after year plunges millions of people into an irrevocable state of intoxication and made me, an outsider, drunk on something I had never actually tasted.

Being fully immersed by the effortless force of sakura years later, I have started to understand that hanami is more than just a celebration - it is a social phenomenon which brings us together on an open stage to witness and perform, while millions of screens are watching, intoxicated by what they can only begin to imagine.

かつて、私は東京に来て、桜の開花が始まったばかりのころに、日本を去らなければならなかった時のことをよく覚えている。満開の花を実際には見られなかったにもかかわらず、すでにワクワクした雰囲気に満ちているのを感じた。何百万人もの人々がその雰囲気に酔い知れ、私のような「ガイジン」でも、今まで経験したことのない陶酔感が理解でき、もっと味わいたくなった。

数年後には、桜の力に完全に圧倒されつつ、花見が祝賀以上のものであることを理解し始めた。何百もスクリーンが目の前の花見の光景を写し出し、それが拡散することで、スクリーンを通して世界中の人々がこの社会現像に酔い知れることになる。




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