This work traces the places swept through by immense forces and the marks left in their wake. It begins with confronting spaces accumulated with the waves of history, and the people who find themselves within those environments.
Okinawa is a place where nation, race, U.S. military bases, and diverse cultures intersect in complex ways. Moving across system-built geopolitical boundaries, people construct unique ecosystems of life within the gaps. Through their existence, this work poses a fundamental question: Is it possible to define an individual's identity through clear-cut boundaries such as nation or race?
"Big Bang" serves as a metaphor for the moment a new order emerges after a world collapses—a continuous state of shift and intermingling. Rather than confining subjects to specific categories, the work focuses on capturing the resilient vitality of an individual standing before the camera as a single scene. What matters is not a rigid definition, but the ambiguity that resides between those boundaries.
This is not an attempt to reflect on the past or restore memory. It is closer to observing a present that remains active and expanding. By connecting people who blend disparate backgrounds and persist in living, the work confronts a raw cross-section of reality. It is not a perfect paradise, but a reality where the tenacious will to live undeniable exists amid the traces of upheaval.