yokoego

yokoego

This project uses photography to present a sustained state of approaching things. The subjects include treated eggs and surfaces bearing traces of natural processes—such as cracks in snow, plant growth, burned ground, and repaired structures. Some remain intact, while others have already undergone change, yet all exist within a process of being observed, touched, and understood.

With the egg as an object, approaching becomes a process that allows intervention. Through restrained and repeated actions such as cutting, separating, stitching, and soaking, the interior is gradually revealed but never fully possessed. Each intervention shortens the distance while preserving a boundary, allowing approaching itself to remain an ongoing state.

In contrast, the images of natural phenomena permit approach only through observation. Cracks, residues, and transformations are not produced by the author but already exist within time and environment. Here, photography does not direct the subject but confirms its presence from within a distance.

The images do not point toward the outcome of actions, but remain within the process of approaching. Across the photographs, clarity and obscurity alternate, exposure and concealment coexist, keeping things in a state that resists complete grasp. Through the juxtaposition of objects that can be intervened upon and surfaces that can only be observed, the work draws attention to the shifting relationships between surface, boundary, and interior.

“approaching infinitely” does not indicate arrival, but a sustained posture of viewing. As approaching continues to occur, distance is not eliminated but perceived through repeated closeness.