Photographer Yusuke Yamatani's next move is to capture the history, climate, and breath of Yokosuka through a personal filter.

You never know what they will do next, and I mean that in a good way. That is my impression of photographer Yusuke Yamatani. In HOUYHNHNM, we will follow in his footsteps.I chased after them at every turn.said this when I last interviewed him.

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Yamatani: (omitted) I recently bought a house.
Nomura: Seriously!
Yamatani: Yes. I bought it in Yokosuka. I wanted to expand what I had been doing and move more at my own convenience. And I wondered if I could do that no matter where I lived.
Nomura: Wow, so you are going to live in Yokosuka from now on?
Yamatani: Yes. From about March next year.
Nomura: Oh, it's a long way off.
Yamatani: Yes, that's right. It is a second-hand property, so we are planning to renovate it ourselves. I have a friend who can draw plans, so we are doing it together. And I'm thinking of doing it like an apprentice carpenter.

So, the next piece was set in that "Yokosuka house.

I never thought I would get so hooked on photography," says Yamatani, and I believe that he is indeed a true artist who quietly and sometimes violently gives form to the impulses that always boil up inside him.

The project to convert an 82-year-old three-story house in Yokosuka into a home and studio involved his family, friends, and acquaintances, and he participated in the work from the beginning, coming into direct contact with objects such as soil and concrete, digging up the history of the land and buildings in Yokosuka and traces of the people who lived there, and finding parallels with his own photographic expression. In the process of doing so, he found similarities with his own idea of photographic expression.

The result is a three-dimensional work on a clay wall and a series of photographs taken while the work was being done, which were compiled into the new exhibition "KAIKOO.

The repeated remodeling of the house over the 80 years since its completion has brought to light its buried history, and shed light once again on the mundane things of the past that have no historical value worth mentioning. Far from being a history or tradition passed down from generation to generation, it is the story of each and every home everywhere."

The physical sensations and textures brought about by the construction of dwellings, such as soil being dug up, plants being cut down, and wood and concrete being processed by the artist's own hands, seem to have given Yamaya new motivation for creativity.

The event is just over a week away. If you are interested, please come this weekend.