Tokyo

Bottles of liquor fill the background, while a bartender’s hand and a cocktail appear in the foreground. At the center, Tokyo’s Rainbow Bridge emerges through the bar. The image does not establish which space contains the other. The bridge may be an image projected onto a screen inside the bar, or the bridge may be the physical reality onto which the bar has been projected. It is also possible to read both spaces as real, occupying the same field at once. Reflections, transparency, and overlapping photographic layers remove the usual clues that separate interior from exterior and object from image. The work therefore creates a visual uncertainty in which the viewer cannot determine where the actual space begins or ends. Rather than presenting a fantasy, it uses familiar elements of contemporary urban life—screens, glass, reflections, and images—to make the distinction between physical and virtual space increasingly difficult to locate clearly.