Nakanoshima Rose Garden in the early morning, May 14, 2026.
I had long wanted to go there on a cloudless sunny day, first thing in the morning, when no one was there.
Last night, I slept somewhat poorly and woke earlier than planned.
When I looked outside, the sky was perfectly clear, without a single cloud.
I immediately headed to Nakanoshima Rose Garden by taxi using GO.
However, as usual, I had some trouble specifying the exact location of my home.
Although it was still early in the morning, it was not completely empty of people.
In the past, I used to take photographs while making sure that no people entered the frame.
But since learning that people who appear in the image can be removed during editing, I now give absolute priority to my own composition.
Anyone who appears in the frame is removed after I return home.
This time, the work consists of 367 photographs.
The total running time is 36 minutes and 42 seconds.
In other words, each photograph is shown for exactly 6 seconds.
Even though only a few people appeared, the time required to remove them exceeded the time spent shooting.
In that sense as well, my photographic collections are quite labor-intensive works.
Considering that I normally do not take a taxi from my home to Nakanoshima Rose Garden, the fare was also rather considerable.
Today, throughout the shoot, the overture to Tannhäuser kept playing in my mind.
At any rate, the Osaka Philharmonic Matinée Symphony on May 12 was truly magnificent.
For this work, I used the pieces from the second half of that program, in order.
At the end, I added Bizet’s Minuet from L’Arlésienne.
The order of the music is as follows:
Humperdinck: Prelude to Hansel and Gretel.
Mascagni: Intermezzo from Cavalleria rusticana.
Puccini: Intermezzo to Act III of Manon Lescaut.
Mussorgsky: Dawn on the Moscow River.
Wagner: Overture to Tannhäuser.
Bizet: Minuet from L’Arlésienne.
The audio sources were selected from performances publicly available on YouTube.
Many of them are by Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic.