Video: The path to enlightenment: black and white photographs by Nick Pedersen
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
American photographer Nick Pedersen calls all those spiritually hungry forward to enlightenment. The character of his black-and-white photographs sometimes finds himself in a gloomy forest, then meets wild animals, then contemplates shooting stars. And all in order to find and climb the sacred mountain Sumeru, where the truth will be revealed to him. The path to enlightenment is long and difficult, but neither the fog nor the sea can stop a person who once firmly decided to achieve absolute wisdom.
American Nick Pedersen was born in Salt Lake City, but moved to New York three years ago. Here he wanted to get a good art education and began to study at the Pratt Institute. Nick Pedersen grew up in a mountainous area, so his collages about the long road to the sacred mountain have absorbed the childhood impressions of high cliffs and clouds on rocky peaks.
A series of works about the black-and-white world and the path of a little man to the longed-for enlightenment is called "Sumeru". Sumeru is the center of the universe, a sacred Buddhist mountain located somewhere in the far north and revealing the truth to those who reach its top.
Nick Pedersen, who is fond of Eastern philosophy and loves Zen parables, decided to illustrate with black and white collages the path to enlightenment, about which he read so much. The photo artist demonstrates the attempts of the character - the human "I" - to get to the magical Mount Sumeru and climb it.
Nick Pedersen says that, like the authors of Zen texts, he wanted to depict consciousness as a space. The photo artist explores in his works the metaphorical world of the mind, and the spiritual quest of a person looks like a person's wandering, often in darkness or fog, because it is not at all easy to understand the true nature of things.
Nick Pedersen loves to travel not only metaphysically, together with the inhabitants of his black and white world of photo collages. He travels around the world with pleasure, and new countries give the talented seeker of truth new impressions, which immediately fall into a working notebook for sketches and recording thoughts that have come to mind.
According to Nick Pedersen, the main thing for any artist is to do what he is really interested in, and go his own way - to enlightenment, perhaps.
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