STILL LIFE is a series produced in the artist’s family home, following the same setting as Project Family. All photographs are made on the dining table used in everyday life. Home-cooked meals prepared by the artist’s mother, food purchased at supermarkets, commercially packaged sweets, and ordinary household items appear together on the table. These elements are placed side by side without being arranged into a single order, remaining unresolved within the same frame.
All images are shot from an overhead viewpoint using flash. The light flattens the objects and emphasizes color and form, rendering food and household items as static elements even as they exist within processes of consumption. At the same time, expiration labels and product information printed on food containers persist in the image, continually asserting their status as concrete objects situated in daily life.
While STILL LIFE contains elements of the photographic diary—such as those found in the Meals series by Nobuyoshi Araki—it avoids foregrounding private emotion or personal events. The objects on the table are treated as repeated configurations within everyday life, and the photographs function not as commemorations or recollections, but as records that incorporate the passage of time itself.
The dining table is both a place for eating and a surface upon which traces of daily life accumulate. In this series, the photographs of the table do not narrate events or emotions, but register states shaped by repetition, consumption, and temporal layering. In this sense, STILL LIFE is presented as a new form of still life that comes into being within the everyday.
