When I first listened closely to Kohei Matsushita’s “Sayonara no Mukō ni,” the face of a friend living far from his hometown came to mind. And I thought of the many “goodbyes” he had experienced. Before the one-and-only final “goodbye,” I experience countless goodbyes of my own. Among them are goodbyes that come only once, and goodbyes for which tomorrow is promised. This work was animated entirely on paper. I want to walk through the world that spreads out beyond “Sayonara no Mukō ni,” together with the rain of tears. Riding on the bamboo boat we made with them.

All living things in this world will eventually turn to bone. What appeared when a fragment of that world of the afterlife was captured on a smartphone was the bones of a pigeon. Yet in the end, it becomes clear that the person who filmed it is also one who lives in the same world.