Daiki Usui
The Land of Gold
"From old times, we, the Japanese people have been seeing homelands in nature and also in the lives of people. I think we feel nostalgic towards sceneries we have yet to see because we understand and connect to how the sceneries should be." Daiki Usui, the Land of Gold
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Chinjyuno-mori
"Shinto, the religion in Japan, is a form of animism. It's believed that the gods dwell within everything and, particular for a country as comprised of forests as Japan, forests are especially holy places. However in order to create communities the land had to be deforested. (...) This work is an approach from both the side of the untouched forests of the "chinjuno-mori" -- the birthplace of the Japanese -- and from the side of the shrines built by the hands of man." Daiki Usui, Chinjyuno-mori
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