Snow-Deer

Artist: NAWA Kohei

White deer shining like falling fresh snow have been worshiped as divine servants in Shintoism since ancient times. Shinroku (divine deer) in this work appears to calmly peer into the time of glaciation, which will come for sure in the distant future, while sensing a rise in sea levels caused by global warming and further shifts in climate.

Photo by Koichiro Kutsuna, Arecibo