The exhibition title from the German theologian Rudolf Otto's The Idea of the Holy (1917), in which the term is used to describe the "numinous" (a divine power that is simultaneously terrifying and fascinating).
Since discovering that a "meaningful coincidence" is at work in the relation between the self and the world, Kodaira has endeavoured to make photographs, which serve as a medium for expressing, and sharing with others, the sense of coming into coming with this "meaningful coincidence".
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36 pgs, 26.8 × 21 cm, Softcover, 2015,