NAOKI KIMURA
photographic arts
Artist Statement
The world reveals itself in subtle shifts of light, air, and silence.
I do not photograph objects, nor do I aim to express personal emotion.
Emotion, for me, functions as a sensor — a way of detecting the slightest tremor in the atmosphere,
the moment when the world quietly opens.
To photograph is not to capture, but to receive.
What appears in the image is not my interpretation, but the trace of a moment
in which the world became visible on its own.
Light and shadow breathe together, and in that breath, form loosens, time softens,
and a quiet presence emerges.
This is what I call Zero-Horizon — a state in which representation dissolves,
and only the subtle qualia of being remains.
I stand simply, in that unfolding, listening for the world as it reveals itself.
Naoki Kimura
