"What did I do today?"
My work is inspired by ordinary aspects of daily life and our memories of these experiences.
I wanted to record my daily actions and everyday simple scenes of beauty so kept a diary and took photographs of them.The idea of this project came from my last project "My daily commitment 366 days". (I went to the meadow park everydayand take the Arthurt's seat from the same point and same time over one year. )Over this project, I became interested in time in our everyday life and to keep something every single days.
So in my diary, obviously, I had to write "9am~ morning photo"(I named the action for myself).
I need to explain about my diary because it might be a bit different from just common diary people think. I write just actions I did at the day then add simple comments about it, and what I thought. In addition, I make a note of interesting ideas come up to my mind, it's all in a chronological time.
Then I sometimes try to read the past diaries intentionally.That made me think about human's memory.I sometimes can't remember what I have done in the morning at the day. Not only that, I found that even if I had a really bad day, I can't remember the details and why I felt that way, it means that it might be just a small thing or I do not need to remember. However, on the other hand, it can be said that I always miss a chance to learn lesson from the experiences and do the same things again and again in my life.
While I was thinking sort of things through the diaries, I just thought that if there were some photographs in the diary, my memories would recall vividly, even if the photographs look nothing special, it would help to recall my memories and might be very interesting.
So I decided to try the new project for my final show.
