"If, again I have a chance to meet, there is so much I want to ask." This is the foreword to Chino Otsuka’s series Imagine Finding Me; a letter to her past self.
Chino Otsuka is a visual artist from Tokyo who now lives and works in London, her work deals with her relationship with herself and how she navigates the space she is in.
Otsuka’s Imagine Finding Me series is both technically excellent and emotionally compelling, and has a poetic quality to it. Each image is a double self-portrait; a combination of an old photograph of her childhood self and her current self, creating a temporal and emotive connection between the two. These images explore how one changes with time, making us consider the fleeting quality of time and question it as a linear concept. It is interesting that despite the connection between the two figures in each image, they still feel like very separate and isolated beings.
Otsuka has published a plethora of books, including early works chronicling her teenage years when she moved from Japan to England in 1982 to attend a boarding school in Suffolk, publishing her first book at just age 15.
