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This work started on April 1, 2015. The full page of a daily newspaper morning edition is photographed with multiple exposures, converted into a single image data (Daily), and posted to online media. The daily image data of a month's worth of data (about 30 pages) is printed out with the date written on it, and the image is further photographed with multiple exposures and converted into a single image (monthly). Then, print out 12 images for one year (Monthly), take multiple exposures of the images, and convert the image data for one year into one image (Annually). Although no specific information can be read from each image, they always contain information about the events of a day, a month, or a year. I hope to use these obscure images to remind viewers from different backgrounds of the issues they face (social, personal, regional, etc.) and to inspire them to explore ways to improve, and to experience a return to autonomous thinking and activity."How do we use the optical capabilities of photography to transform social information into photographs (images)?" Working as a web creator, I was interested in the similarities between conceptual art and the dissemination of information through the Internet, optical devices as digital terminals, and the processing of programming languages such as repetition and conditional branching. The output medium has changed from film (material) to digital (information), and images can be posted directly on the Internet. I believe that this has changed the environment in which images can be created and published quickly, and I continue to take advantage of this characteristic to create ongoing works that are photographed daily and published on the Internet. I also consider it highly compatible with conceptual art and minimal art, and want to update it in a contemporary way. The spread of social networking sites, applications, and smartphones has turned many people into photographers and reporters. It recognizes that when it comes to micro information, those in the field no longer play that role. I take that micro aggregation of news media, add dates to the material, convert it into images, and post them. The image formed through the optical mechanism is an abstraction, and no concrete information can be read. However, the image definitely records daily information. I hope that the use of these obscure images with their dates and durations will provide an opportunity for viewers from different backgrounds to recall their own issues (social, personal, regional, etc.), to explore ways to improve them, and to experience a return to autonomous thinking and activity.