near UV spectrum wabi-sabi

The visible spectrum of light for human is rather narrow, and among its narrow range which we call as colors, there are violet and red as two extreme edges of visibility.  Any light outside of these two sides fade to be invisible.  Such invisible spectrum can still affect us in various ways such as generating vitamin D, sun burn, snow blindness by UV or heat and warmth by Infrared.  In extreme case, far outer spectrum outside of UV direction (frequency) such as certain spectrum of radiation can damage our DNA.

Some animals or photo film can see little further out of the spectrum than what we can see:  Butterflies can see UV which make them distinguish gender by looking at wings, and vipers and cobras etc. have infrared sensors to feel approaching prey or enemy.

In such sense, the void that I came to realize through the synchronicity which is mentioned in my previous log (in Japanese as I could not find the proper English word for 虚空 which is actually slightly different than void.) also does have color even though its invisible.  As a photographer I still have to cling on to the outer edge of visible spectrum to portray something that's outside of visible spectrum for the sake of photographic work for the viewer.  One of the method I came to use to do this was the effect of halo and haze around object which can be photographically emphasized by special filter that cuts all the other spectrum of light except deep blue which is the neighbor of invisible UV.

Nobel Laureate in physics Dr. Masatoshi Koshiba once told us that he likes Mozart because Mozart's pieces actually make him hear the notes (and perhaps melody) that are not actually sounding.  Many people would agree that such composer's pieces make us sense beyond the existing notes by giving us vectors by sound and silence arranged in time.

still life, calcium with vitamin D 600mg tablet

dusk as dawn

Some of the old, yet post Edo period Japanese art finally started speaking to me.  The influence of western art perspective on these "new" Japanese prints gave me a kind of relief for some reason.  I came to know a Japanese printmaker and painter named Kawase Hasui.
  
Hasui's works are predominantly dark, cold and snowy with decent amount of exceptions which to me are actually emphasizing dark pieces or vice versa.

In the darkest time of the year, I'm discovering a new direction, or rather long forgotten trajectory.

   
My grandmother (as well as my mother) was a Ikebana teacher certified by the grandmaster of Ohara school of Ikebana.  Grandma ran a studio at my home to teach Ikebana, and although I never became my her student, I was oriented to the studio full of her disciples and their study works, and the meditative attitude and discipline.   

Unlike other older schools of Ikebana, Ohara school of Ikebana is a fairly new school, established after the end of Edo period.  So, its style is less traditional to deal with "newly introduced" western flowers and plants at that time.  Accordingly, there are more variations in format of compositional perspectives. 

I wonder how much I was influenced to interpret ordinary or obscure scenes with such perspective format.  I thought I already became aware of such thing during my study years in Norway, but it seems that it is still far beyond my conscious mind that actually frames my photographic compositions. 

Around the Harbor of Hayakawa  2005

   

the Samurai Sustaining Catharsis

Today the 14th of December is the anniversary of the Forty-seven Ronin attack. 

It was a highly disciplined, carefully pre-meditated, and self sacrificial incident to win an honor.

http://www.sengakuji.or.jp/about_sengakuji_en/

I wonder why the story has been surviving in Japan vividly in various forms to this day. 

...The madness of the story actually sustains calmness in today's world that is still crazy, ugly, hypocritical and unjust sometimes. 

weather forecast as verbal zen garden

One of the most accurate, up to date, and objective news from all kinds of media is weather forecast.  I sometimes get tired of watching TV news or internet news sources, but I cannot help it at the same time.  It is a relief that weather forecast are giving me some intercessions. 

When we go into news details or rumors, we are going into the state of altered consciousness.  We are actually rendering news and rumors into what ancient people regarded as myths.  We need stories to live by. 

I heard that British like to talk about weather.  If I say that in other countries other than UK or Japan, it would sound like irony as lack of subject to share, but I think it's beautiful when people can talk about weather while there are many other rumors in the atmosphere.  

Advent in Bergen

Binary Wall Two

Meister Eckhart said that "The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me."  I am interested in such non dualistic attitude even to perceive divinity within or redefine "I".  I digged into the awareness of uncertainty and anhilation of subjectivity and objectivity during the MFA degree study years 2010-2012. 

'Aquarium' from the sereis 'THE PANORAMA FOR THE OMNIPRESENCE', 2012

Binary Wall One

KHiB MA Exhibition 2012, Bergen Kunsthall

HNoMS Thor Heyerdahl  -Anti Submarine Warfare Frigate

diptych - panchromatic and orthochromatic

Invisible Third Man Factor



Yesterday, I went to see the latest Hayao Miyazaki film "The Wind Rises".  Toward the end of the film Jiro Horikoshi's third man factor like figures encouraged him to survive when he was almost loosing sanity.  (probably not only from the sadness of loosing his love or being in the midst of devastating air raid, but also from his own guilt of designing Mitsubishi A6M for Imperial Japanese Navy which were used for Kamikaze near the end of the war.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Man_factor

I feel that "time" will be near by my side to shout where itself is.  Time will probably be my third man factor.  Time flies, but in certain situations, it also hovers around me.