ALMOST PERFECT VISIBILITY
This work draws on the Japanese concept of KOKUU — a term that gestures toward nothingness, empty space, and the quiet fullness of the void. The black-and-white image reveals a figure in motion, both present and dissolving, a gesture stretched in time. What emerges is neither a fixed form nor a trace, but a visibility that hovers at the threshold — a figure shaped by movement.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Almost Perfect Visibility is an attempt to inhabit the void — to let movement unfold beyond the instant and to translate its quiet, fleeting openness into photographic form. Working within the sensibility of KOKUU, the performance by dancer and choreographer Hideto Heshiki, I use a one-minute exposure on medium-format film to gather the dance into a single frame. The camera receives the movement as a continuous imprint, allowing clarity and dissolution to coexist. Almost Perfect Visibility explores what becomes perceptible when time is allowed to expand.