/ mr. concrete and other places

During my four-week stay in Itoshima, I spent much of my time wandering on foot and by bike through the village where I lived, and along the road that that bordered it.
Some of the places I saw every day, despite their banality and in a apparently inexplicable way, captured my interest more than others.
These were places where I somehow felt observed, as if they had eyes, but no mouth for speaking.
I returned to these places several times, and repeatedly photographed them, trying to figure out what was out of the ordinary.
Eventually I used painting as a tool to try to reveal their characters, or perhaps invent them; in any case to make a portrait of them, give them a face, a name, to reveal their presence.
Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn’t.

Acrylic paint
Studio Kura Art Residency
2022