This series is a response to the artist's experience of living and working in Milton Keynes, an English town, in 2001. Alluding to English rain, Hatakeyama photographed streets and landscapes through a glass plate covered with drops of water. The focus, however, is not on the scenery behind the glass, which dissolves into fuzzy colors and shapes like a watercolor painting, but the water drops that rest on top of the picture. The effect is similar to a relief, refracting light in fascinating patterns. The landscapes behind the glass seem strangely unfamiliar and lost. As in all of Hatakeyama's works, the composition of the pictures is extremely precise.

The title of the series harks back to a science-fiction story by Bob Shaw revolving around the invention of a special type of glass with the ability to retrieve scenes from the past. Slow Glass, then, can be read as a reflection on the nature of remembrance through the medium of photography