Distant
Friends
Distant friends serie is a quiet imagining of a world long after us, a place where the things we left behind have softened into sentience. Inspired by Tsukumogami from Japanese folklore which refers to objects that awaken into spirit after a hundred years. The series traces a future shaped not by humans, but by the remnants of consumption.
Object once seen as lifeless begin to shift, to feel, to remember. Stripped of their original function, they reconfigure into tender, peculiar forms. Their faces emerge slowly, as shy gestures of recognition: part playful, part haunted.
These beings do not mimic life as we knew it. They do not serve, or seek meaning. Instead, they drift towards one another — drawn by an unknown longing, forming kinships through time. A quiet ecology of presence and response unfolds, shaped by memory, touch, and transformation.