Neither wind nor soul, but something found between them—Pneuma. Drawing inspiration from this Ancient Greek word, which simultaneously signifies "breath," "wind," and "spirit," Endo journeyed to the highlands of Tono, Iwate Prefecture. It is a mystical place, seemingly suspended in the threshold between earth and sky, between this world and the next. The stage for this shoot was "Queen’s Meadow"—an experimental site that reconstructs the ancient culture of Tono, where humans and horses once lived together under a single roof. Here, horses are released from reins and horseshoes, living in their original, liberated state. In this "horse-first" environment, worlds apart from riding clubs or tourist ranches, the horses gallop across the meadows with an overwhelming vitality. This space dissolves the 5,500-year history of humans domesticating horses as beasts of burden, allowing horse and human to resonate as equal lives, their boundaries gently melting away. Eiichiro Tokuyoshi, the "Tono Horseman" who founded the facility, described Endo—who vanished into the tall grass to press close to the herd—as "diving into a sea of grass." Guided by pre-linguistic sensations, Endo expanded his own physical presence into the world. The shoot unfolded in the intersection where the layers of eternity meet the "here and now." Captured there is the silent respiration of the invisible "Pneuma," traversing the space between flesh and spirit, between the inner and the outer world.

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