JAPAN

During my time in Japan, I spent about 95 percent of my time alone. It was a phase of forced, but welcomed isolation in the most serene yet stimulating of settings.

My stop in this country was not planned, and a layover turned into 4 days which turned into 2 weeks, coincidentally within one of the two most desired months to visit Japan: when the leaves turn into a vibrant watercolor painting creating scenes of rainbow mountains of trees and adorned shrines.

These weeks of personal solitude made me feel like everything in my path was laid out for me to stumble upon, to photograph, to taste, to drink, to sink into. In turn, these photographs exhibit the surrealness of my surroundings, the wildly impressive yet humble scenes that make up Japan, and the setting that left me needing no travel companion at all.