I just wanted to share a link to a film about the photographer/artist Hiroshi Sugimoto.
There are many shorter films about the artist on You Tube.
I only heard about this artist yesterday - recommended by an artist friend. I'm loving his work and the conceptual ideas that inspire it.
The second half of the film goes into this more - fascinating work connected to a Shinto shrine, the importance of imaginative/spiritual
connection with our ancestors, and the realization of an internal memory (that we all have the potential to realise?) of when we first became aware
of our consciousness as a being in time and of our mortality. For Sugimoto this moment was a view of the ocean as a child and is beautifully represented in his series 'Seascapes' which have a timeless/Zen quality.
I wondered - could this be a project for our group to explore. I'm wondering now how I might capture/locate that 'first image' and represent as a visual image.
The artist quotes from The Heike Monogatari ' We see what must be seen - and disappear into the sea'
all evocative and inspiring.
Gassho
Jinyo
Sat Today
There are many shorter films about the artist on You Tube.
I only heard about this artist yesterday - recommended by an artist friend. I'm loving his work and the conceptual ideas that inspire it.
The second half of the film goes into this more - fascinating work connected to a Shinto shrine, the importance of imaginative/spiritual
connection with our ancestors, and the realization of an internal memory (that we all have the potential to realise?) of when we first became aware
of our consciousness as a being in time and of our mortality. For Sugimoto this moment was a view of the ocean as a child and is beautifully represented in his series 'Seascapes' which have a timeless/Zen quality.
I wondered - could this be a project for our group to explore. I'm wondering now how I might capture/locate that 'first image' and represent as a visual image.
The artist quotes from The Heike Monogatari ' We see what must be seen - and disappear into the sea'
all evocative and inspiring.
Gassho
Jinyo
Sat Today
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