Imaginarie Skin

In these photos I asked my friends to reside in a transitionary state between emotions, to move freely bewteen one moment to another and to try to exemplify those gaps in our emotional spaces. We gathered in October inside that cold Nakameguro atrium with the preparation to access these latent feelings and commit them to a photographic image. The result are images of compressed emotions, balancing a person’s beginning, their eventual moment of resolution and moves the subjects beyond themselves yet retaining all of their qualities from start to finish. And I think we accomplished what we set out to do that day. In the early days of the project I liked to refer to the work as “Campbell’s Emotional Canned Soup” and in a way it’s still the most apt choice for describing what we created. Imaginarie Skin is about the human features that continually shift, at every thought, emotional response, at the taxi honking, at the sudden appearance of a face you miss the most, for all these granular accumulations builds the skin we wear on our faces–these images are the result of that. 

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Thank you to all that made this happen, for the conversations, collaboration, advice, and who, in no particular order, I appreciate greatly: Minami, Hana, Fatim, Nina, Shohei, Ciara and Riko.