Ukiyo-e
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Photography allows us to look into the mirror for clues
suggestions / warnings / about who, what and how we are
memorable / elastic / unwavering
Photography allows us to look into the mirror for clues
suggestions / warnings / about who, what and how we are
memorable / elastic / unwavering
express your emotions - music, poetry, painting,
dancing, singing, laughing, loving, living
creation & reception of art
establishes dialogue with mirror neurons - sensory stimuli...
art is self discovery
a good artist creates what they are
art has a sacred status -
raises us to higher moral & spiritual plane
shared experiences w/art emotional connections
active dialouge b/t artist & spectator & universal
Laos
Plain of Jars - 500 BC to AD 500 - Drinking vessels of giants. I was there.
The beauty of human sadness, the song of an emotion we all can feel. - Chekhov
Purpose of great literature: to help us recognize and be conscious of what we experience but do not really notice.
Street photography is when you can smell the street and feel the dirt. - Bruce Gilden
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"Yes, the elusive beauty of human sorrow which men will not for a long time learn to understand and describe, and which it seems only music can convey."
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I can show you enough love to break your heart forever.
A good photographer meets chance all the time.
The author uses all the enchantments:
language, rhythm, music and spirit.
Artistic emotion provokes thought
and gives the feeling of beauty.
A work of art is a force that attracts,
absorbs the available forces
of the one who comes close to it.
Year of the Tiger
How many more full moons will you see?
"Rejoice, go and remember me." - Sappho
"Photography provokes language, new discovery, abstract dream like qualities. Extraordinary - that's what I respond to." - Moriyama
"Find what you love and let it kill you."
"What a circus, we're all going to die - love each other - we don't. We are eaten by nothing."
"Some people never go crazy. What truely horrible lives they must lead." - Bukowski
"Flooded with image overload people don't feel much emotion any more ... overstimulation (C-19), people lose sensitivity & aesthetic judgement so they will not learn anything meaningful." - Ai Weiwei