The series Slow Glass by Naoya Hatakeyma is a body of work that Hatakeyma created after a four month residents in Milton Keynes. While in the UK, he became interested in English rain.
The work that was made was made just up the road from where I live now New Milton. He created the images by looking through windows where the rain had fallen, by keeping the rain drops in focus the town has been abstracted with the use of light and open New Forest roads.
What I love about this work is that it doesn't show where in the town that the images are you would really have a hard time knowing that the images were taken in New Milton, so in a sense if you were to see this work in a gallery, having knowledge of the town, you would still not be able to make those links straight away.
The work really looks at the way that water reacts when it falls upon different surfaces, such as glass.
The name 'Slow Glass came from a name taken from the novel Light of other days by Bob Shaw.
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