PAINTED PINK

[...] Shiga plays with the axis of time, floating with the image before it settles, before it becomes permanent. The act of creating a moment of frozen time is akin to prayer for her. Now it exists: it is evidence. [...] Take, for example, the picture of the pink house in the rain. It represents a dream come true for Tatsuko (also pictured). Shiga talked a length with Tatsuko, with the intention of elicting her heart's desire: a pink house, it transpired. Shiga scouted Sendai, and on finding the city's oldest house, ready for demolition, contacted the owners and asked if she could paint the house pink. On the rainy night before the house disappeared forever, she did just that.
(Max Houghton on Stranding Records by Leiko Shiga | Foam #12)