The piece I made in 1999, A SILENT DAY, depicts a girl’s uneasy state of mind as it wavers between life and death. This piece reflects my own unstable spiritual state at the time. Three years have passed, and as I looked at this work with calm, I came up with an idea: “What if I make a story of a girl who is trying to make a film, A Silent Day?” By creating a new ending in which it is ambiguous if her jumping to kill herself is real or just an incident in the film she is making, I want to express my recent theme, that is, melting of fiction and reality and ambiguities of the world we live in. (Takashi Ito)
[Source: Image Forum, January, 2023]
