Naka Town, Tokushima Prefecture, 2019
Type-c print
40 × 50 in (inquire about other sizes)
Edition of 10
April 28, 2025
This dreamy springtime scene suggests a whole world that is renewed and in blossom. When Toshio Shibata dedicated his art practice to landscape photography, he endeavored to show aspects of the natural world that aren't typically depicted. This guiding intention led to his focus on the intersection of human-made elements with the landscape, highlighting how our built environment is never detached from nature. This entwining of natural and manufactured elements finds a particularly playful expression in this picture, where buoys floating in a lake look like celebratory balloons, or petals falling from the trees.
