Saturday 31 January 2009

before or after or in-between






10 comments:

  1. Incredible photos.

    I had been without internet for a while so I'm catching up very slowly...

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  2. Excelente...nu mai am ce spune...

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  3. Roxana, I'm not religious-as you well know-but..Jesus!

    Don't know what to say, really. Why is it that when I see these pictures I don't think of the mountains as simply existing, don't think of the artist that took them, but of the inner moods of the clouds and artist being one?

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  4. hi michiko, some wonderful new flowers you've got there :-)

    I thank you so much for all your comments... and I am curious: in what way did my pictures make you see japan in a new light?

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  5. I don't know what to say either, listening to you I might start to believe that I have realized the essence of japanese or chinese old masters :-) which is of course not the case. but maybe you have attained it and it is your gaze transforming the images this way? :-P
    do you know Yourcenar's 'Oriental Tales'? 'How Wang-Fo Was Saved' is so beautiful.

    and hi, K :-)

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  6. sublime in its most awesome, Kantian sense

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  7. yes, fff, I have thought of your and antonia's posts on the sublime when I posted this...

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  8. edith, atunci nu zic nici eu nimic, doar iti zambesc si-ti fac cu mana :-)

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  9. wow! can't believe I almost missed these.. the colours are so rich here - like a classical oil landscape; and the mountains look like they are made of copper itself.

    and like you said of me - "but how many different styles have you tried already...?"

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  10. oh zuma, you remembered this :-) I have to be more careful with the questions I ask, you might throw them back to me in a year or so :-) (of course I won't be!)

    but I don't know how to answer, I guess it depends on the topic, on what film I use - I like to experiment with colours but I also like black and white. I can't find a common thread to all of them either, but some very perceptive readers seem to think there is a special 'signature' to all the images I show.

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