In praise of... [2025]
Digital photographs, hand-made publication
There is an old song that says : « the brushwood we gather—stack it together, it makes a hut, pull it apart, a field once more. »
Such is our way of thinking—we find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates. A phosphorescent jewel gives off its glow and color in the dark and loses its beauty in the light of day. Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.
Jun’ichirō Tanizaki