Voice of casket - Taichi Gondaira

"I lover beautiful original landscape and traditional culture of my home country. In this past half century, Japan itself has dramatically changed and yet the change doesn't stop. One morning, I got an intuition that there are encounters to the world that cannot be preserved if I don't take their photos now, and therefore I decided to shoot the chaning Japan for the subject of my works. I've been encountered to people who became the subject of my works, to platinum print, and to Gampi paper. Pure Gampi paper brings the platinum print life.It is as if the 'time of stars' and the 'gift of life' have appeared in my works.

I expressed the Japanese traditional beauty as the voice kept inside of casket. For many Japanese people, a casket remind them of a casket from Urashima Taro, the Japanese fairytale, which is about the young man who rescued a bullied turtle and as a reward, the turtle guided him to palace under the sea, where he got treated very well. When he was about to come back from the sea world, a princess of the palace gave him a casket, being told that it should never be opened. However he breaks the ban and opens it... It is a well-known fairytale in Japan. 

I hear there were some theory about the casket.

One of them is that the casket was a way for the princess to revenge to the young man for abandoning her and tried to marry a girl from the ground. However, here, I would like to consider the casket as a mysterious box that can keep the time of love. 

You might be able to have conversation with the voice." Taichi GONDAIRA

stock number: NB324