Miyu Kojima creates dioramas of rooms. The attention to detail and the sense of realism is phenomenal. But unlike other miniatures, these are faithful replicas of real rooms where the occupants have died. In many cases, they are documents of “kodokushi” (lonely deaths), where those living alone are found dead in their homes, sometimes going unnoticed for days or even weeks.
Kojima started making them as part of her job, working for a company that that cleans up homes after death. Of the models Kojima creates, she says that rather than replicating specific rooms in precise detail, she tries “to capture the essence of the characteristics that I noticed while cleaning them out.” In Tokyo, 4,777 people died alone in 2017. Around a third were found two to three days after their death, while nearly 10 percent were discovered more than a month after they passed away.
Kojima says she can empathize with families who lose kind in this way and is considering projecting 3D images of people moving in her models “to show that despite the way they may have died, these people all led regular lives.” Read story in bio link. (Alex Martin photos)
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