Ametsuchi (heaven and earth) is a theme that Kawauchi has been contemplating as she searches for the origins of civilisation and culture. By capturing the 1,000-year-old ritual of Mount Also, she contemplates time honoured traditions of humanity. In the series, she includes photographs from three more sites — including: The Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, the view from a planetarium, and the Shiromi Shrine dance ritual in Miyazaki —and by mixing these images together, she turns her attention to ancient ceremonies here on Earth as a connection to the heavens. Although Heaven and Earth could be looked at prom a perspective of biblical enforcement, I do not believe this is the use of her work. The elements of religion I do not want represent in my work, as it creates connotations of my work forcing or demanding to be held above other work, or the work is too politically demanding of religious ideas to be considered by everyone to be beautiful. I found this book which I believe directly reinforces the themes of amestushi wants to show throughout their work: In this think, you are able to see how the photos brings together images of distant constellations and tiny figures lost within landscapes, as well as photographs of a traditional style of controlled-burn farming (yakihata) in which the cycles of cultivation and recovery span decades and generations. Punctuating the series are images of Buddhist rituals and other religious ceremonies—a suggestion of other means by which humankind has traditionally attempted to transcend time and memory. Other works form this artist are visible though is work experimenting within the luminance of pieces and the effect that lighting has on a piece of work.
Where “haiku” is a minimalist form of poetry, of meditation on facts that happen in everyday life and its visual counterpart is a subtractive operation of the elements within a frame. A haiku is a Japanese poem describing a mood, an ambiance, often linked to Nature and the passing of seasons, with a specific metric: 3 lines with a 5/7/5 feet rules explored the emotional power of the intimate images that each one of us keeps with us as amulets. This is an approach one photographer takes towards the haiku “When I photograph, I start out with an open mind. If I start out with a precise idea of what I want to photograph, I might miss an interesting event or object. So, I begin with an open mind and try to photograph all kinds of objects.Haiku: the art of emptiness,True haiku is a celebration of unclutteredness, emptiness, fleetingness, vastness, littleness, nothingness, change”. Emptiness finds its way from silence towords, often in parataxis. An example of parataxis from Beckett’s Waiting for Godot:Parataxis is the lack of conjunctions. We must fill in the empty spaces. Beckett, Pinter, modern masters of breath, of pause, of emptiness. It has been happening for centuries with haiku. True haiku catapults us into infinity; creating an aperture which not only suggests infinity – it actually allows us through, into the Void. Haiku is a portal to emptiness. The emptiness itself is not to illustrate a lack of beauty or belonging for objects of cluttered spaces, it is just a meditative effect in order to emphasis the importance and beauty within the little things, and the cleansing of ourself to become pure and part of this experience. It is seeking the value of less being more, and focusing on the things we might normally take for granted. Haiku create silences, arise from silence, return to silence. How? Haiku shuts out the noise of the world in concentrating on pure phenomena – even when such phenomena themselves contain sound. It becomes a silenced sound, a return to the beginning of sound, the first quack of a duck, or the cry of a pheasant that has just swallowed a whole field, the silence before and after that cry. Within photography haiku is almost a speechless narrative transcript laying all of the most important value moments being within a location or person not a thing itself. These photos are meant to capture a purity of true bliss. Linking also to that of being opulent and visceral.
Looking at this website , I found countless amounts of images and inspirations that are not only a clear influence from both beauty and the conceptual ideas of haiku, but also some really innovative images and edits, It shows the world, with such beauty that we never get a chance to see with our normal daily lives. I want all of my images this have this unique combination of seeing the wold in such beautiful unique pattens and ways. I believe due to me being influenced by these images I will conceptually annotate them, and explain the processes as why I believe they are successful. Above is a small development of a more normal consideration of natural beauty within the emptiness of space.
conceptually I chose this image as it’s qualities are clearly echoed from the terms of abstraction, and additionally the clear influence of fine art. You can not only see the elements of nature, and the development of abstraction, but there are clear echoes of heaven due to the light forming in a triangular manner and yet contrasting with the circular trees centered in the middle. It is a clear disposition of that of land and sky. Despite this image being edited their is still a sense of purity and agency to it, The rich detail of the tops of the branches creates an interest which we would not normally be inclined to see. There is a power within the pieces formality, and I belive if I was to produces a set of images edited in this manner it would not only work well with my starting off development of fine art, but it would too develop the conceptual idea as what can be seen as beautiful in nature, and what is heaven and earth a representation of.
Plan for shoot: the plan for my shoot, is going to consist of many different locations, and many different outcomes and goals for each location I go to. These will consist of: going to the zoo, a waterfall, a beach, St Ouens bay, caves, in to the sea, forest, and will too try an capture different aspects of light, animals, sunsets and refractions of movement. I believe I will try and achieve this shoot in either one day or through the combination of two days, and use the whole day, through sunrise to sunset to go to all locations and capture all different elements purposing the theme of haiku, it is only if the lighting or elements are not quite as successful or do not portray the Elements of heaven and earth in the way I wanted I will redo the shoot. After looking more into ways I could enhance these shoots and these images, I wanted to try and develop How I could photoshop without taking away the natural beauty of the origins of the photo. Much of this photoshoot I believe will be enhancement of the light. This effect of movement echoed throughout the image creates a natural way to create a more abstract effect of imagery, perhaps I could do a whole development of trying to find natural ways to distort and create a new meaning behind a once plain image. So Far I have taken around four shoots, all differing from focuses on themes of mediated chaos, surrealism, fine art and finding the beauty in everyday. I believe doing this large shoot and being able to develop all of these images in order to also be bought into a successful narrative within my book. Putting both of these experimentations of haiku into terms, I belive I can find a good balance of images which are a pure depiction and unedited which forms acts of heaven and earth, and too creates more abstract edited pieces which combine to work with my past shoots, these will really help my project focusing on beauty grow and be able to flourish into a successful narrative piece.