Gion Festival: Later Festival Floats, Parallel Realities

Parallel Reality (Photo from a group exhibition) A photo taken at Kyoto's Gion Festival, Ato-Matsuri, in 2025. Lately, I've enjoyed going to summer festivals to experience the vibrant atmosphere of long-standing traditions. There's something truly special about places where people gather. Anyway, I wanted to try a unique technique to photograph the festival, and while searching for a method, I stumbled upon this spot towards the end of my walk. You see the actual float and its reflection in the window glass. One is real, the other an image, but both are parallel, and both are reality. This piece is a complex work for me, with that kind of interesting depth.