OGAWA MIYO

This work is composed from a single image synthesized using exterior views collected from Google Street View, taken from various angles and at different times. During the editing process in Photoshop, there was a moment when an area that had been automatically selected suddenly disappeared. A window I had been using as a reference point for stitching became, in that instant, like a pixel—creating a gap in the composition.

From the inside, a window can serve as a frame for observation.
But when viewed from the outside—especially in office buildings where identical windows are arranged in sequence—each window begins to resemble a single pixel that helps define the image of the entire structure.

These gaps and the display case-like quality of the sky invite us to imagine how the city might change in the future, and how those changes might be recorded again as “pixels” in Street View. Since I’m based in Osaka, I’ll likely see the rebuilt version of the building only online.