One song from Harumaki Gohan’s “Phantom” series.

An independently produced work themed around existence in illustration. When I saw a convenience store clerk simply standing there in between tasks, I felt an indescribable sense of appeal. By depicting the clerk from eight directions, a fleeting, wavering presence emerges—just a person simply being there. By connecting the eight directional illustrations, a video is created in which the surroundings rotate around the clerk as the axis. Through the moving image, the clerk on the screen comes to appear as if they have three-dimensional coordinates.

A rapidly shifting urban landscape — waves of people, railway networks, buildings, and city lights generate an immense torrent of information. This work intensifies that “excess” through visual techniques such as slit-scan and delay, making the speed and density of changing information visible. Screened at “Toki-no-ma,” an immersive gallery created through the adaptive reuse of the former Hino Junior High School in Hino Town, Tottori Prefecture. Presented in the first opening program, “A Classroom Where the City and Satoyama Intersect.”

NHK Minna no Uta "A Wonderful Night"