Created from 2024 to 2025.
This work involved retracing fragments of a life once lived by exploring the dramatically transformed landscape of Natori City after the earthquake, using Google Maps. In this process, I created drawings based on past photographs and transferred them onto acrylic sheets.
By viewing the landscape through these drawings, I forged a new connection between memory and reality.
This work simultaneously visualizes my own lost memories and poses a question about the rupture and continuity of time held within photographs.
Production Note
When I was four years old, I lived in Natori City (Miyagi Prefecture). I have almost no memories from that time. The few memories I do have are of the road in front of our house and the short walk to pick up my older brother. And the rice fields where we caught grasshoppers.
In one photograph, I look just like my brother, who is a year older than me. The four-year-old me in the picture is fiercely pedaling a tricycle, wearing a furoshiki cape. I wondered if I had wanted to become Superman… but looking closer at the photograph, my gaze was fixed on my brother, who was riding a bicycle with training wheels.
I remembered how I had admired my brother, who wanted to be Superman himself. At that time, to me, my brother was Superman.
(Production record for “A Record of My Forgotten Self,” 2025)
