1 Day / 1 Daguerreotype / 1 Min Film by Takashi Arai

This 1 min. video shows how Takashi Arai creates a daguerreotype for his project "Anti-monuments for 100,000 Years" in the forest of Olkiluoto, Finland, where the world's only final nuclear waste repository site is situated.

Daguerreotypy is an irreproducible, low-light-sensitive, and labor-intensive process. However, the image on a bright mirror surface of a silver plate is sharp and exceptionally detailed with nanoscopic particles. People who first and suddenly encountered those magical non-human images in 19c called daguerreotypes "mirrors with memory."

"In order to commune with the ancient past and the future 100,000 years from now, we have no choice but to imagine, but we cannot begin that journey unless we break the shell of our imagination. Seeing/photographing with daguerreotypes, and giving our hearing over to ambient sounds surrounding us, helps to transform our consciousness." -Takashi Arai

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