"Vicissitudes" features images that reveral my contemplation on still life.
In search of my motifs, I explored into the mountain for inspiration.
The naturally withered plants and flowers fascinated me. And I found the
insect carcasses mysterious and exquisite.

For me, the fading away of these transient beings is not an ending gesture
but the birth of an ideology. I tried to bring back the alluring frail
beauty of these ephemeral elements of nature with my platinum images.
I wanted to resurrect their lives in temporal aestheticism and sustain
that threshold between life and death. 
"Vicissitudes"is my photographic ode to living organisms veiled and
unveiled as still life.

Ryuji Taira

Statement

English / Japanese

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