Edward Harimoto - 2022
Artist's Statement
Earth is everchanging, and whether we want it to stop it or not, we can’t, and it won’t. Our Earth is evolving as time goes by, and we all know we can’t stop time as of now. So much changes over time and they can come and go as big or small changes which can affect how our beautiful planet is seen through the eyes of others. Our planet has definitely gone through its ups and downs, with beauty and ugliness. It’s just part of life, and if we change life it’ll be hard and different to adjust too.
My project is to be shown as a slideshow, with different images I have taken to express how I see the changing planet that we call Earth. Everything you see in this slideshow, shows an extent of time and how what we do constantly changes. And how not only do we make changes, the Earth makes its own changes alongside ours. To embrace how we express our changes, we have to document how everything is going around us. My project is called Everchanging Lands, and the reason for that title is to not focus on just one specific area but all of one whole place.
A couple things that prevented me from capturing certain scenes of what I wanted, were time and money. Even though us humans can do a lot without money, money comes into the scenarios to aid us to get to certain places with ease. If I had the time to show my project to the fullest, I’d love to travel the world to different places to document life in a fuller picture. We are all here to see things change, and my job is to help gather images from all around the world to aid us with seeing those changes. Trying to fit a good amount of different places and styles was the hardest part of finding these 24 images. Wanting to initially only pick vertically taken photos, I changed it to add some horizontal photos into the mix to show different compositions and what not.
The tools that assisted with this project ranged from multiple mediums, all scanned and digitally edited to be presentable. My main tool was a DSLR camera, which was always by my side, along with a 35mm film camera, to capture scenes with an older taste. I also had my phone with me, but that was rarely used. I had the opportunity to do a cyanotype of some places, but ended up scratching that idea due to the size and detail I was trying to portray in it. The choices of these images were very dependable on the previous ones that were chosen.
This project was more time consuming that most of my other projects, due to the fact that I had to use some photos I took back in 2018. The bulk of the images were taken during 2020 to 2022, but this helped showed a sense of time when I present all of these. This project was a challenge, but worth every second, cause I get to show others what I see through the lens and shows how I see the world. Thank you for viewing this project, because it means the world to me to show everyone.
