Rinko Kawauchi

うたたね

Utatane

半梦半醒 in Chinese it means between wake and dream, it just like her work, she use blue a lot in images and some images are quite blurry in a way, like a dream like the real atmosphere.

She wants to see things outside of the photo. Her work focuses in ordinary things and everyday situations. and she use soft tone to show it. Her work is intended to show the unique pristine melancholy, she doesn’t use the illusion of light and shadow to create an effect, is just the simple composition and the angle of the image, she is entirely from the simple visual of ordinary people.

She records everything in life, including eggs, dinner, summer, watermelon, sky, flower are all can be her shooting theme. The work reveal the peace of  mind, delicate and peaceful. A leftover watermelon rind, and a few grains of black seeds on a white porcelain plate, the colour is white, pure and clean, it is easy to let people fall into the imagination. I might think the person who ate the watermelon must be a simple, quiet woman with a white shirt. A broken egg lying on the table quiet;y, the moment seems split crack, it is difficult to guess if it is a small life to be born. The kind of seemingly unintentional shooting, but full of unknown imagination. Some people who first saw her work, like me, will be attracted by the quiet, comfortable and simple sense. However, we can slowly found the subject of shooting and the picture are two different things.