Duration: Start: 2022 - End: 2025 Description: Growing up, my sister and I had opposite personalities, which prevented us from building the kind of sisterhood often portrayed in TV shows or movies, driving a wedge between us. However, after losing our mother to lung cancer when I was 20 and my sister was 17, we began to understand and accept each other more. Since our mother had been hospitalized for years, my sister has few memories of her, yet she often behaves like her, evoking déjà vu. Our hometown, with its beach and nearby nuclear power plant, stirs mixed emotions, especially after the 2011 Fukushima disaster, intertwining nostalgia with anxiety. Photographing my sister there deepened my appreciation for our transformed relationship. Despite the years, her familiar piano playing still greets me whenever I return home, a comforting reminder of our enduring bond. Plan: I will approach this project by photographing intimate moments and landscapes that resonate with our childhood and current realities. The scholarship funds will be allocated to essential materials, including photopolymer plates, inks, and Japanese paper. These materials are crucial for creating the high-quality photopolymer photogravure prints central to this series. The remaining funds will be used for framing. Goals: My goals include producing at least 50 images, creating a photopolymer photogravure print series and archival pigment prints, publishing a book, and exhibiting the completed work.
