Sediment
Sediment is rooted in Yokota’s sustained interest in layering, accumulation and repetition. The works evoke geological processes, where strata build up over time through gradual deposition. Multiple exposures and interventions create images that appear compacted and textured, as if compressed by invisible pressure.
The surfaces carry the impression of time having passed through them. Visual fragments overlap and merge, suggesting that each image contains within it the residue of previous states. In this sense, Sediment proposes photography as a form of material memory. The photograph does not fix a single moment, but rather records a sequence of transformations, layered and condensed into a single, complex surface.
