Fragment of LTM

• Photographer
  Yuichi Ikehata, Japan
• Studio
  Total Mind
• Website
  http://works.kakuunohito.com/

Fragment of Long Term Memory (LTM), an ongoing photographic series, conveys an unrealistic
world through fragments of reality. My understanding of reality comes from its moments of
beauty, sadness, fun, perfection, and those days when nothing special happens. Many parts
of our memories, however, are often forgotten, or difficult to recall. I retrieve those
fragmented moments and reconstruct them as surreal images. I gather these misplaced
memories from certain parts of our reality, and together they create a non-linear story,
resonating with each other in my photographs.
I shoot landscapes as well as self-portraits in which I appear painted white. I also use
materials such as body parts and models of buildings that I make myself using clay, wire
and paper to make this unrealistic world. The work puts audiences in the ambivalent
position of not knowing what is real and what is not.
My art shows that those two worlds—reality and fiction—are very intimate, and often appear
without clear distinction. Reality is a key to access the unrealistic world, and unreality
is also a key to access reality.

Born in Chiba, Japan. 1975
Lives and works in Chiba