I have been taking photographs like a breath to preserve memories of a world that might suddenly be lost. Photography connects the memory of "a moment in the past" to the past and the future, giving light to places and life. The images then seem to contain a reality that emerges from the five senses, even though they are far from our perceptions, as all of time is fragmented, connected to time, broken and reconstructed, not just the phenomenon in front of us. 「L'éternité」 is a private project born of the sensational 19th century French poet Arthur Rimbaud's unadulterated desire to see the "eternal moment" that he once saw in the western seas, in this time when the world is divided. On the planet Earth, where Rimbaud's beautiful poems were born, a primal instinct to move back and forth between fragments of time, to transcend time, to breathe in each climate, to cherish life, responds to us living here. Following that impulse felt like a hope that cut through the dimness. — Makiko Kitagawa
