Leaving elements of an artwork open to interpretation was not a problem with other cultures at this time, as in China and Japan, where fog and mist and rain and obscurity were very comfortable ...

The resulting book, Chasing Fog – illustrated with her own photographs – ranges far beyond fog as weather. It is about fog in history, fog in folklore, fog in literature and painting, fog as it occurs ...

Her father is credited with making the first artificial snowflakes. Nakaya first became interested in fog after painting clouds. This was the time in the 60s when everyone was out on the streets.