The original impulse for this piece came from the ancient Japanese belief in Sakasama: the reverse world. The two worlds of Life and Death are described as two shores; one is ‘the near shore’ (the world of the living), and the other is ‘the far shore’ (the world of after-death). A river flows between them. ‘The far shore’ is a reversed world: it is the reverse of the world of the living and everything is upside down. I drew an analogy between ‘the far shore’ and my own experience of Australia as an upside down version of Japan, with reversed seasons. In this video work, I also explore the juxtaposition of my (Japanese) presence in Australian landscape, experimenting with the neutrality of emotion and colour, and to manipulate rhythms.