180 years have passed since the birth of photography and yet there are truly unique artists around the world. They replace one idea with another media or repeat the refinement of an image to seek new other　possibilities.
For example, artist Man Ray (1890-1976) is one of the first to challenge "experimental photography", such as a technique that exposes light to photographic paper to visualize a happenstance moment which is a sublime type of playing. Artists of this genealogy, such as Gary Fabian Miller, Thomas Ruff, Noriaki Yokosuka, used only the camera body without the lens, to produce images in photogram technique and collage that directly exposes the photographic paper. Modern and contemporary photographs have diversified their ways of expressions and recently in our contemporary, digital approaches became mainstream. Good or bad it will wash away traces of human senses and handwork. In our era, photography may be heading in a "cool" direction because of the excellent reproducibility in digital technique.

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In the case of Sarah Fujiwara, photos are replaced in data and next they are printed using the most qualified pigment print. The surface of the print is peeled off dynamically and the image is transferred to another paper like a process of copper or wood print. In this un illogical complex process, unexpected phenomena, and accidentals slip into the image. This process seems to be mattering processes for her "dialogue with memory" which is the basic concept of Sarah Fujiwara's work.
Fujiwara’s primary work features aspects of the lotus in “Neuma” 2012, and three years later the rose in “La vie en rose”2015.  New work "Melting Petals" is focused on the poppy flower. Throughout her career, she approaches different plants, and we can recognize the flowing changes in her ways of creation.

Photography is the act of finding connections in the past and the present. While innovating the technology of straight photography, Fujiwara breaks her method and tries to change himself completely new. The change is to reveal something that is not a prepared concept. It is also an attempt to clean up dead cells. In the past 10 years, Fujiwara has asked herself "What is photography?" to deepen her view of the world just as the old masters pursued their original style. The title "Melting Petals" can be said to be a portrait of the photographer herself, who expressed Yin and Yang in a flower.