Seascapes
The Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto set himself the task of finding an image that primitive man had once seen, something unchanged by millennia. He first thought of Mount Fuji but that had once had a twin, Mount Hakone, that collapsed creating the Ashinoko crater lake. And then he found an answer to the riddle that is both obvious and surprising: Immutability is found in the Brownian motion of liquid, in the ever-changing and unchanging sea. Sugimoto: "Although the land is forever changing its form, the sea, I thought, is immutable. Thus began my travels back through time to the ancient seas of the world.” The series is called Sea Scapes.
The photograph below was taken from a helicopter. Despite its total simplicity, I find it very moving. To me it expresses, with a maximum economy of means, beauty, ethereality and Zen emptiness. |
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