Untitled (Araki's Diary)

"Basically, I have never been interested in tying up the body of a model. What I was aiming at was the female heart. That was what I wanted to lay in chains. In the course of time, if I can put it this way, the models have tied themselves up, have bound themselves to me..." (N. Araki in: 'Camera Austria International', no. 45, 1993, p. 15.)