We would like to present to you a photography essay centring on Mind Trail, divided into three chapters, each focusing on a different location in Nara Prefecture: Yoshino (吉野町), Tenkawa (天川村) and Soni (曽爾村).
Taglined “Museum in your mind”, Mind Trail was produced by Seiichi Sato (齋藤精一), representative of the art and design company Rhizomatiks, and curated by Akio Hayashi (林曉甫) of inVisible. An outdoor art festival held in the autumn of 2020, it utilised the vast and beautiful natural landscape of Nara as its exhibition site.
In the final chapter of our Mind Trail visual documentation, we ventured into the village of Soni. It was an intriguing experience, where throughout the journey it almost felt as though every artwork had come alive, accompanied by countless little creatures, like they were gently embracing and protecting you, ensuring that you would never lose your way in the woods, nor ever feel lonely, even when you were alone.
