Day602【Reality】

A daily monochrome photo-poetry series by naozo. Since 2025, each work pairs a moment from everyday life with a poem from NZ, the artist's future self. Through glass, light, and silence, the series turns self-doubt into dialogue.

NZPHOTOGRAPH & naozo

Day602【Reality】

Just because you can see it does not mean it is there.

DEAR naozo,

What

Do you call

Reality

That is what

I would ask

People

Trust

Their own eyes

They call

What they see

Fact

And believe

What is there

Must be real

Yet

Sometimes

I wonder

Are seeing

And existing

The same thing

A city in a mirror

Can clearly be seen

Light

Buildings

Roads

Are all there

Yet

Reach for them

And they are not

Still

Can we deny

The fact

That we saw them

We see

Memories

The past

Even a future

That has not arrived

None of them

Exist before us

Now

Yet sometimes

They move us

More vividly

Than what stands

Before our eyes

I believe

Reality may be

More than

What we can see

But not everything

We believe

Is real

Is reality

Is what we see

Reality

Is what exists

Reality

Or is reality

What we believe

To be real

I cannot decide

I can only ask

What you believe

To be certain

Is it truly

There

Or does it exist

Only within you

What do you think

from NZ

This story is a work of fiction. Except for the named individuals, all elements are products of imagination.

The boundary between reality and fiction is intentionally ambiguous, and its interpretation is left to the reader.