All the memories turn Blue
Yoichi Iwamoto

All the memories turn Blue is the result of a photographic project done in a collaborative effort by the author and his mother, in a process that runs on a simple idea: two photographs (portraits of each of them) and the daily exchange of these in form of prints, scans and email, over a period of a working month.
The work also represents an attempt to display how the material and economic condition affects even the most intimate relationships, within their contradictory development: as the images, the subject of their memories, got distorted and seemingly vanished through this repetitive system, the bond between the author and his mother grew bigger and warmer.
Although, only to have in the end a bunch of blue photocopies printed in an import-export office.

“In the beginning of 2018 I went back to live with my mother for a short period. Though she is a very good mother as many other mothers, she has been one of the worst flatmates I have ever had. Yet, to cherish that time I decided to do a collaboration with my mother.
I took two photos from the family album.
1. a photo of one-year-old me shot by mum when we have been in Hawaii.
2. a portrait of my mother taken by me on my fifth birthday.
I then scanned the two pictures and sent to her via email while she was working in her office. She printed them for me with the generic laser color printer they have there and brought them home.
I then scanned those prints (A4) and sent these to her again the next day.
This process has been repeated over and over again, daily, for a working month.
Retroactively the work has been titled, All the memories turn Blue”
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