Public Project
Tokyo - mono no aware
Copyright Silvia Merler 2024
Updated Dec 2015
Location Tokyo
Topics Abandonment, Beauty, Landscape, Street, Travel
Tokyo, Japan. November 2014
(Nikon FM2; films)

"Mono no aware" (物の哀れ) is a Japanese expression that literally means "the pathos of things". It is used to indicate the awareness of transience of things, and both a gentle sadness at their passing as well as a longer, deeper sadness about this state being the reality of life. This project is my try to visually substantiate this feeling


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