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My photos have yet to mature beyond a certain standard, and it’s something I know I have to work on. Which again leaves you no choice but to choose. For example, when it comes to entering the New Cosmos of Photography, having your photos in a book format is the best way to go, but when it comes to the exhibition, you can’t exhibit all the photos in your book. It’s strange to say it, but I’ve been able to submit my works as something slightly different. In a work like Made of Stone, I could put in 27 photos and no one would get angry. Photography’s value system remains the display of single photos, forcing you to choose a single photo from hundreds. But they never turned into finished works. I’ve been taking photographs for many years. Since I, too, had just made my debut, I took the name Sword and Sandal incorporating the idea that this marks the starting point of my journey. These sword-and-sandal films were a launching pad to later success for a number of young directors, one of whom was Corbucci, working on shoestring budgets. The name seems to have come from the frequent appearance of gladiators in the films. In looking up his filmography, I discovered an old Italian film sub-genre of historical epics called sword-and-sandal.
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I decided to stay on this path and come up with a title that reflected Corbucci for this work too. I was thinking about Leone and Corbucci, those kind of films, when I submitted a work that quoted The Great Silence by Corbucci to an exhibition in Osaka in August. Lots of films have been set in Venice, but my knowledge of Italian film is pretty much limited to spaghetti westerns. And because my previous work Made of Stone was a quote from a film, I decided to relate this title to a film as well. A desire to make films led me to try to create video works. On the other hand, I find going with something like “Untitled” rather pretentious, so it’s quite a dilemma for me. I’m actually pretty bad at deciding on titles. Like I can say with authority: “This is what the book is written about.” My understanding has emerged little by little. To use a baseball metaphor, it was like I’d finally found my ideal swing, and now as a batter, I can adjust to any pitch. Once my ideas about my works were more firmly grounded, I felt like I’d come to an understanding of a very difficult book.
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So I’ve had more occasions to consider how to explain my works as well. So I had to make my explanations easy to follow since I was showing my works and making a presentation in front of regular people. The audience was made up of regular visitors as well as people in photography and the arts. That necessity forced me to really think about my work. I had had few opportunities to talk about my work before, but the New Cosmos of Photography required me to speak in front of an audience. Over this time, I had a change in how I view my production and work. I went through an artist talk event and the public Grand Prize selection meeting, sandwiched between winning an Excellence Award and the New Cosmos of Photography exhibition.