Heading to the trip, I have seen numerous photographs about Hokkaido, Japan and thought I could expect the same. As I traveled across the harsh, snowy landscape of Hokkaido, I came across fields as white as a blank canvas. There I forced myself to see beyond the obvious: beyond just black and white, beyond the feeling of chills and blizzards, and beyond my imagination. I saw it as a perfect opportunity to explore my ideas of a calm but harsh landscape; of what it could look like amidst the blizzard and the cold.
