Asako Narahashi’s series, Half Awake and Half Asleep in the Water obliterates me.
Here’s an interview with her, Under the Waves by Bridget Fitzgerald via The Morning News.
Why these areas of Japan? What places them in the series?
Japan is a relatively small country surrounded by the sea. The coastline scenery is varied; sometimes it is a fully natural environment, sometimes man-made. I wanted to look at Japan from the water.
The coastlines in all the photographs are linked to each other somehow, but each photograph is rather individual and independent.
How did it all start? How did you develop this new way of taking photographs?
One day in summer, I went to the sea with my friends. While I was swimming, I happened to see my friends, who were having a party on the beach. That was the very beginning. Swimming backstroke like a sea otter, I took photographs of them from the water. After a year, I put the camera into the water more intentionally.
How much do you get knocked around?
Thousands of small waves knock me over. However, I never fight against it, but go completely with the flow.
What are you working on next?
I had “walking eyes” first. Now I have “floating eyes,” so I will probably have “flying eyes” next. I’m half-serious and half-kidding.
And here are some quotes from her via Theme Magazine:
“I often have both feelings—‘good’ and ‘bad’—about a certain thing or subject,” writes photographer Asako Narahashi, emailing from her home in Tokyo. “I am quite a perverse person, so I cannot accept my good feelings gratefully. When I feel good, I wonder whether it is right or not. When I feel bad, I try to find a way to make it better.”
Gorgeous.
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