A VIEW FROM HATERUMA ISLAND
A view looking south at the southern most point of Japan: Hateruma Island, a small island in the Yaeyama Islands of Okinawa. A flight from Los Angeles to Tokyo, and then to Naha. From Naha, an island that has been polluted by the presence of the American military, a 20 hour ship to Ishigaki, and then a small 2 hour ferry to Hateruma. There, on an island that you can ride a bike around in half an hour, I found this view. I found it all the way at the bottom. Imagine going all the way to the end of something - to a point your body can go no further. Imagine standing there looking out at sea knowing that only your vision can continue further. It is this, your vision, that extends out into the distance, the unreachable, the impossible.