Meguro Ward, Tokyo, 2023
Archival pigment print
20 × 24 inch | 37 × 45 ¾ inch
Edition 10 | Edition 5
December 9, 2024
This photograph uses the slightest of elements to create an image of quiet intrigue. Yoko Ikeda's approach to photography seems to reproduce the subjectivity of our senses and experiences, and suggests the ways in which unassuming surroundings can be remade in our daydreaming mind. In the poetic novel In Search of Lost Time (published in English as Remembrance of Things Past), Marcel Proust used the phrase "subjective truth" to describe how our knowledge and impression of the world is shaped by how exactly we experience it with our senses. The plant life arrayed in the foreground of this picture evokes the impressionistic way that things enter into the periphery of our vision, and how these small moments of incidental beauty lend themselves to reverie.
