” Inspired by the idea that the world is made of dots and grains, which is common to Buddhism and elementary particle theory, I create photographs, videos, installations, books, etc. that look at the world through grains, dots, and waveforms.

Tsukiji and Toyosu, which are the subjects of this shoot, are towns with markets, and although they are the kitchens of the Tokyo metropolitan area, they have attracted people from all over the world until the pandemic. The liveliness of the market was over-excessive, and the atmosphere was sunny, and every day was like a festival, full of energy. Tsukiji has a history of being a foreign settlement in the Meiji period, and I think that the fact that people gather there again is a “fate” in Buddhist terms. For about five years, I worked in Tsukiji, brewing Japanese tea, watching people and photographing landscapes through the bubbles before and during the pandemic. It doesn’t make much sense to find the difference between the two images. I just recorded the flow of impermanence with an empty head and printed it on a lambda print. “

– Chisato Saito