Land of Cones

It all started a few years ago during a discussion with some photographer friends, we were talking about the lack of aesthetic consideration that Japanese people could have for their daily environment and especially about the fact that they can create places of incredible beauty that they would ruin by putting objects that have nothing to do with them like traffic signs, metal roadblocks or prohibition signs. But what bothered these photographers the most were the traffic cones, with their plastic material, their triangular shape and their orange colors, it is hard not to notice them. Thinking about this discussion, I thought it would be funny to shoot the few cones, I passed on my way, just for the joke, and that's how this project was born.

It starts with a joke and little by little I realized that it was a real problem of society, I realized that they were really everywhere, lost in the mountains, along the rivers, in small neighborhoods or in majestic temples, they are everywhere and in excess, the slightest desire to delimit land, a path, they put cones, until the absurdity.

An absurdity that could be without real consequences if we did not take into consideration the plastic materials in which they are made and the way they are used.  

A lot of them are neglected, they will take decades or even centuries to decompose, leaving a pollution of toxic materials and microplastics to spread in the environment.