Discovering the Intangible

Facing the sense of loss

Natsuho Tada・Tatsuya Otsuki・Sawa Uchida


The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, the advent of smartphones and SNS, and the Covid-19 pandemic.

Repeated disasters and man-made calamities. Japan and the world have changed drastically in the past decade when we "young people" spent our teenage years.

The innovations in information technology and irreversible absurdities of the past decade have exposed previously hidden problems of human society, and have affected our spirituality in many ways.

Whether it is earthquakes, torrential rain disasters, social changes, or conversely, suffering from unchanged social conventions, even when some of us are suffering, we just think, "Here we go again”. This feeling of having lost something. What have we experienced and felt before we had this "sense of loss"?