“The moment you land in Japan, an enormous kindness welcomes you but in the meantime, another feeling also is attached to it. You feel to the bone that you are a foreigner and a guest there. And once you start exploring the streets, you carry both feelings simultaneously.
The concept of Noren (a traditional half-curtain divider found at the entrances of shops, restaurants, etc) creates an obstacle for the "gaijin"(foreigner) to enter them.

Once you feel brave enough to pass them, the magical Japanese world salutes you. Noren provides Japanese people the opportunity to create pockets of isolation in their already crowded lives.

The noren concept in my project appeared in many forms a plastic door, a curtain, bamboo curtains, blurred glass, and a window and a door. All create private moments. That's why I gathered "Behind the Veil" scenes from my Japan project.
Like in the photo named "Plastic doors", although the arrows compelled me to open the doors and walk in, it seemed also a private moment that I could never be a part of.

The ratio chosen for this project was a creative decision, trying to give a more cinematic aspect to the scenes created by my photographs.”