I grew up in a household of seven people and a cat. Objects are always accumulating in the living room of my parents’ home. Because the balcony is small, laundry is dried indoors. Leftovers and condiments are left on the dining table, and the kitchen sink is rarely empty.
Clothes belonging to different members of the family are scattered throughout the house. Clean and unwashed clothes are piled together, and some are left unfolded. In this environment, everyday activities overlap without clear boundaries.
Roles within the family are not clearly defined. Household tasks and responsibilities are unevenly distributed, carried forward unresolved, and passed among family members. Meals are prepared, left unfinished, and eventually eaten by someone else or thrown away. Order is neither fully maintained nor completely broken down. These everyday conditions repeat themselves.
This work was made over thirteen years, beginning in 2006, when I started taking photographs, in my family home in the suburbs of Yokohama.
