Mention honorable dans la catégorie « Écriture Poétique »

In my native language, Japanese, there is an expression that compares WORDS to WATER DROPLETS. (”kotoba no tsuyu”)

It is a rhetorical device that metaphorically expresses a certain aesthetic sense of the ephemerality of words.

In this work, the abstract theme of “words” is expressed through the metaphor of “reflections in a puddle”. The phenomenon itself, which is like a slideshow unfolding in the same place, is surprisingly similar to the act of pressing the shutter button on a camera, and can also be seen as an analogy for “speech”.

And the ambiguity of the outline of the image that emerges with the ripples on the surface of the water seems to visualize the workings of human memory. In this work, I observed puddles in the same spot with a narrow radius, and visually expressed the flow of time and its transience. (The actual image is blurred due to the effect of the split-image filter attached to the lens.)