Gold Medal in the category « Night Views »

My theme, "Reverb+Graphy," is an attempt to visualize images of present scenes and past memories that play like reverberations in the brain. To embody this concept, I use prismatic lens filters that create an amplifying effect. This work is a spin-off of "Reverb+Graphy." I was inspired by images from "Night on the Galactic Railroad," a masterpiece of Japanese children's literature that I was familiar with as a child, and "Galaxy Express 999," an animated film created from an original story by Leiji Matsumoto. I tried to create a poetic and nostalgic atmosphere by using expressions that evoke reverberations and afterimages. Having been familiar with these stories since childhood, I feel a strong attachment to the connection between "galaxy" and "railroad". I have also been taking street snapshots of train stations of Madrid(especially, Atocha Station) for several years, which led to the creation of this series of works.