片岡俊

Shun Kataoka

One of the ideas of Minakata Kumagusu, a naturalist and biologist from Wakayama Prefecture, is the word ‘SUITEN’. The word means ‘the point where various causal relationships, inevitable and accidental intersections, most frequently pass through’, and it refers specifically to ‘the point where different things interact’. I have been interested in the intersection of people and nature for a long time, and I have been photographing various places in Wakayama Prefecture, where Kumagusu walked, as the point where the two intersect. People and nature influence each other. And they create new forms and phenomena. The intersection of these influences, which could be easily read in words, is found only in the marks on the stones that have been turned inside out. The two entities, which are difficult to distance and influence each other, strongly attract me as a point that cannot be seen at a glance. I want to see the first step toward the next point, just below the first step. The trajectory of the dots overlap each other and lead deep into the distance.