This series of Toyobo prints explores how architecture might be perceived when memory begins to fade. The images reflect a fragmented spatial experience, where familiar structures slowly lose their clarity and orientation becomes uncertain.
The works are inspired by the atmosphere of the large city: its scale, repetition, and anonymity. Within this environment, architecture can become overwhelming and disorienting, turning staircases, interiors, and urban structures into spaces that feel both familiar and strangely distant. The city becomes a labyrinth in which one can wander without direction, accompanied by a quiet sense of solitude.
The Toyobo technique plays an important role in shaping this atmosphere. Because the images are transferred and printed through a photographic polymer plate, the process introduces subtle distortions, textures, and tonal variations. These qualities allow the image to appear slightly unstable, as if it is slowly dissolving or emerging from memory.
In the prints, architectural spaces appear almost like phantoms of memory: recognizable yet elusive, lingering somewhere between presence and disappearance. Edges soften, surfaces become grainy, and spatial boundaries begin to blur. Through this process the works explore the unsettling moment when the familiar begins to slip away, and architecture becomes a landscape of wandering, solitude, and fading recollection.
