However fake the subject, once photographed, it's as good as real.

I'm inviting the spirits into my photography. It's an act of God.

I have a strong feeling about this quick movement and changing of society and populations growing - something scary.

To me photography functions as a fossilization of time.

One night I had an idea while I was at the movies: to photograph the film itself. I tried to imagine photographing an entire feature film with my camera. I could already picture the projection screen making itself visible as a white rectangle. In my imagination, this would appear as a glowing, white rectangle; it would come forward from the projection surface and illuminate the entire theater. This idea struck me as being very interesting, mysterious, and even religious.

Population diminishing, even in Japan and Italy, the population is diminishing. When society can reach a sustainable place or gain comfortable income, then people tend to have fewer children. Poverty makes a chain reaction of having many children. So when society reaches some kind of level, then it will turn toward getting a smaller population.

It's pre-photography, a fossilization of time, Americans have done the Zen garden to death. I wanted to do something different.