Takeshi Aruga was en\u00a0route from hospital back to his home in Okegawa, Japan, when he took this photograph. He\u2019d had a consultation with a dermatologist, and while his house was a couple of miles away, good weather encouraged him to walk. Along the way, he passed PAPA Ageo, a sizeable shopping centre popular with locals. This blue sign\u00a0board outside the multistorey car park caught his eye.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn the side visible to drivers coming down, it usually displays a message like \u2018Thank you for visiting\u2019 along with directions for turning left or right to avoid traffic congestion,\u201d Aruga says. \u201cJust behind is a red box, likely for a\u00a0fire extinguisher.\u201d<\/p>\n
He credits his work as a furniture designer and maker for the sense of geometric composition in his photography. \u201cI also liked how the various colours created a striking contrast and balance,\u201d he adds. He used Lightroom and\u00a0Snapseed apps to apply minor edits.<\/p>\n
\u201cDue to various circumstances, I\u2019ve not been able to create minimalist furniture, lighting, or three-dimensional sculptures recently, so have used photography as an alternative creative outlet,\u201d Aruga says. \u201cSometimes people ask me where the shot was taken, or how I came upon such a beautiful place. I\u2019m keen to let them know that it was on an ordinary street corner. We all tend to think we can\u2019t enjoy wonderful experiences or happiness unless we go to special places, but in reality, these things exist in the spaces we pass through every day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Takeshi Aruga was en\u00a0route from hospital back to his home in Okegawa, Japan, when he took this photograph.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":["post-749386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}