この作品は、以前制作した映像作品“Screened Scenery”から展開したものである。それまで自分が撮りためた写真の中から、建造物の鏡面状の外壁に風景が映り込んでいる写真がいくつかある事を発見した。このような映り込みは普段私たちが「虚像」と呼ぶものであろう。それならば私はその虚像の元の風景、すなわち「実像」を描いていく他ない。

自分の足下と地続きに繋がっていたはずの実の風景だが描いてみると想像以上に難しい。私は実像とやらを確かめることの難しさを知る事になる。

This work is an extension of my previous video piece, Screened Scenery. While reviewing the photographs I had taken over time, I discovered several images in which landscapes were reflected on the mirror-like exterior walls of buildings. Such reflections are typically what we call "virtual images." If that is the case, then I have no choice but to paint the original landscape—the "real image"—that gave rise to these reflections.

The real landscape, which should have been continuous with the ground beneath my feet, proved to be far more difficult to depict than I had expected. Through this process, I came to realize just how challenging it is to grasp what we call a "real image."