Monday, April 13, 2009

The Kusho - Shinichi Maruyama

liquid black water brush motion flow

Those are the best denotative adjectives that I can give, apart from completely awesome. This photo instills a certain sort of peacefulness, despite the fact that the water is cascading on the floor. And black water nonetheless. The eye is constantly drawn to the flow of water is it's thrown from what I can only assume is a broom. Or a ginourmous paintbrush. It does give the impression of a paintbrush though, as if the artist were painting on an air canvas.

I stumbled upon this artist as I was searching the interwebs for a visual message. Shinichi Maruyama has created some fantastic photography that captures more than just the novelty of a picture of a drop in a bucket or a glass of milk. He has captured the Japanese concept of wabi-sabi- the beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete.

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