Selected by Yuko Yamaji
Curator, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts
「Does The scenery adhere to me?」
by Naoko Takahashi
When I was a university student, I was working for one month at the farm of winter. . As the live-in staff, I led a life together with many animals. My work was giving milk to a calf with a feeding bottle. However, the calf does not easily adhere to a nursing bottle because a newborn calf does not admit that it is food.
I centralize a nerve for several minutes until a calf adheres to an artificial nipple.
Universal relationship is in this trifling exchange. When I had a camera in my hand, and there were scenery and me there, a sense of this time was recalled again.
Naoko Takahashi is a photographer based in Tokyo, Japan.
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