Transient Place, GIF, 2015.
This incessantly looping GIF is pulled from a video I took on a train to the airport in Tokyo last summer. I think this loosely references Yokoyama's novel Travel in situation, but also in the sense that the image is reduced to a near graphic quality, gesturing towards pure abstraction at times. I also enjoyed Botton's description of what he calls "transient places"—of being and not-being—trains, gas stations and airport waiting rooms as places of possible reflection and even meditation. For me, this incessant repetition or lack of beginning or end indicates the oscillation between what for one can be repetitive and meditative, and for others can be anxiety-ridden.
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