This 29-by-72.5-inch horizontal panorama documents a Cleveland subject as “In Sight”—the title suggesting exploration of visibility, perception, and the act of looking that characterized Hayashi’s photographic practice. The six-foot width creates substantial visual presence while the title emphasizes conceptual engagement with vision itself.

Created in 2001, the work represents late-career exploration of seeing as both subject and method. The photo collage technique inherently addresses questions of sight: the photographer moving through space, capturing multiple views, assembling fragments into composite vision that no single perspective could provide. “In Sight” makes this process explicit.

The “Version 1” designation indicates multiple studies of this subject or concept, Hayashi exploring different approaches to visualizing the experience of seeing Cleveland. The commission context may have enabled this conceptual exploration, the institutional support allowing deeper engagement with theoretical questions alongside documentary documentation.

The horizontal format emphasizes panoramic vision—the wide field of view that Hayashi’s technique enabled and that the title addresses. The assembled composition reveals Cleveland from perspectives that sequential viewing might reveal but that simultaneous presentation makes available for comparative analysis.

This work demonstrates the conceptual sophistication underlying Hayashi’s technical practice, the panoramic documentation not merely recording subjects but exploring how photography itself shapes understanding of what it shows.