STELLAR LIGHT

Through this work, photographer Takayuki Narita attempts a poetic study of the sun and its light. He asks, for example, whether a spot illuminated by a ray of light that traveled for 8 minutes and 19 seconds through the distance between the sun and the earth, appearing before his eyes because of a random reflection off of a glass window, is worth considering as a stage for a fateful drama. In spite of the world we live in where using devices operated under the performance of the Central Processing Unit, or the CPU, capable of blinking 3 billion times per second in processing information (the light can travel for about 10 centimeters between the blinks in the CPU) is almost a default, but the fact that every single scene he encounters is a composite of reflected lights with few tens of millionth a second time rags from one another keeps amusing him.   Whilst adjusting aperture and shutter speed, then waiting for an actor to walk into the spotlight glowing in the dark to reveal the scene, the sun is recognized by him as just one star among an infinite number in the universe.