Video: Merging of two elements. Photo art by Shinichi Maruyama
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
When the moon meets the sun, the result is a solar eclipse - a stunning sight. When the sun meets rain, it creates a rainbow, which is a very beautiful phenomenon. When water meets black ink for Japanese calligraphy … It means that somewhere nearby Japanese photographer, artist and designer Shinichi Maruyama is creating his masterpieces. And this is amazing, and beautiful, and bewitching.
Since childhood, Shinichi Maruyama has been familiar with ink for drawing hieroglyphs - sumi, because before photo art, calligraphy was his favorite hobby. Today our hero is no longer up to hieroglyphs, but the fusion of two elements, two substances - black ink and pure transparent water - gives even more satisfaction, not to mention the fact that the result can be the most incredible, the most unexpected. And in this the author sees the beauty of his work, which he calls the Japanese word Kusho, otherwise - “drawing in the sky”.
It is in the sky, in the air that the process of merging of substances takes place, but the skill of Shinichi Maruyama lies in the fact that thanks to the special technique of shooting the process with a stroboscopic camera, he manages to capture the moment when the liquids have not yet managed to combine into a homogeneous mass and turn into a banal grayness, into ordinary dirty water. Such freeze frames surprise with beauty, grace and freshness, but most importantly, it is impossible to make two identical frames. Unpredictability always intrigues and captivates, and even looking at photographs, sometimes you catch yourself falling into a state close to nirvana. In other words, you simply "stick it in" looking at the pictures.
By the way, to achieve even greater effect, I recommend that you look at the site of Maestro Shinichi. And also - watch the video. A few minutes of trance is guaranteed, and of course, lots of fun too.
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