Overflow hanami6/27/2023 And then the city stops everything else to focus with eager anticipation on preparing for the festivities. When the winter breaks and warm air is ushered in, and the first cherry blossoms bloom, an announcement goes out in the paper, marking the countdown till full bloom. ![]() The two worlds collide when the cherry blossoms bloom. Yet the older customs and generations still have a large influence. This loud, boisterous environment is a magnet for the younger generations. Pillsbury describes the scene as a restaurant mixed with a rock concert and a nightclub. Places like Robot Bar, are standard in the city. What drew Pillsbury to Tokyo was the dichotomy of a culture that was caught in a dance between past and present: Holding onto traditions, ancient temples, festivals and ceremonies while embracing technology and modernism. The project Tokyo, which was recently featured in the Benrubi gallery in New York, took a different look at technology as the landscape in which people move around. Many of his previous works have focused on the use of technology in modern life and our interaction with humanity as a result. With the clear implications of mortality in his imagery, Pillsbury stresses the importance of asking questions with his art as opposed to offering a solution or supplying answers. On crowded city streets, a long exposure will only capture those who stand still for a moment. Reflection is exactly what Pillsbury has been achieving with his work for over the past decade. This art form he says, allows him to capture a “given period of time in a single image, and in doing so it allows us a reflection that’s just a different experience.” Pillsbury, born to American parents in France, has had a deep-seated love for cultural exchange and expressing that through the medium of photography. “When using longer exposures I’m also capturing something that is only visible in a photograph, but yet we know it to be fundamentally true.”
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