そんなのかんけいねぇ (this has no relation) on display at the Museum of Futures Phoetry and Photolit exhibit, held between 22 February and 5 March.
The photography brief lead me to discard my tactile idea (part Švankmajer, part momento mori − it will come to exist at another time) and ask myself, if I could do anything for the exhibit, what would it be? The answer involved taxidermy, something that I lack the skill (and stomach) to produce, and the funds to procure. I was at a bit of loss of where to go from there however, contemplating the safety and ethics of posing a car-felled pigeon for a picture − there's always one somewhere. I began trawling through my camera, and stumbled upon the happiest of accidents in a picture I'd taken of a deer in Nara in 2015. Languishing eyes closed in the sun seemingly licking itself, head bent back at an odd angle, it looked dramatically deceased. I presented text alongside it as if an article, but as the title suggests, there's no relation. I don't know how to describe the writing, but there's a close up for you to read should you feel inclined to. There's also some very faded text hidden on the photograph itself, though I don't believe that this is visible in the images I have here.
