eric pijnaken                                                 unbound photographs

ARTIST STATEMENT « BLUE VACUITY »

 

This is not a usual artist statement for a series of photographs. The real artist statement is incorporated in photo two and three of the series. In fact « Blue Vacuity » on which the photographer worked fourteen months, is a follow-up of the series with black and white photo collages « Dancing in the Emptiness » which obtained several international awards.

The all blue photos are inspired by the colour blue of the the aether, represented by a Stupa in the Buddhist cemetery of Koyasan, Japan. The top of it is blue : the invisible ocean of pure consciousness.

The 28 images include those on the recto and verso of an album composed by the photographer.

The series starts with 2 photos containing a poem, the first by the author and the second anonymous, while the last 3 photos of the series contain poems by the Japanese poet Ishikawa Takuboku.

The photos are meant as doors to eternity. If you choose one of them you can try to transcendence it and then, perhaps, it opens the source of life, pure consciousness, where you find bliss, love, truth, peace and freedom. You left the empty dreamworld in which you were living.

In the presentation included is the photo on the cover, and the picture on the back.

Of course this series is an experiment, nothing more.

eric pijnaken©2022

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(Silver Awards: Muse Photography Awards

and New York Photography Awards)