Ever since the series was shown at "Shikei (Private view) '92" (February 1992), the artist's last solo exhibition before he closed his photographic activities due to an accident that followed, 'Bukubuku (Bubbling)' has been remembered among us as Masahisa Fukase's unspoken of work, a series that had been sealed, so to speak. At the time, related to certain aspects of the show, there was, behind the scenes, a growing atmosphere where people had started to have misgivings about Fukase's confused and failing behaviors. Friends had started to worry about him living alone, and when before too long, the accident occurred, the whole event itself, too, was taken as an incident that characterized Fukase as a photographer.
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what strikes me now going through Fukase's last series of works, is how they were backed up by thorough consideration so as to produce specific images. Especially the cautious way 'Bukubuku (Bubbling) was shot day by day. Test shots were taken with care as he calmly framed himself accurately in the tiny stainless steel bathtub floating unsteadily. Fukase's autistic photography act where the revelational digital numbers showed the date, continued exactly for one month.
