River and Tunnel, two connected series from the late 1990s, were published as Underground in 2000. The first traces a river flowing through Shibuya, the Tokyo district where Hatakeyama lives: each view is horizontally bisected by the edge of the river's concrete bed. Above are the man-made tower blocks, below is the river, contrasted, compared, but also balanced—leaving us to question our assumptions. Tunnel takes us into the dark void beneath the city, where we gradually make out a strange symmetry between the structure and its dark reflection.
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