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  • Photographer
    Yoichi Kawamura
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    2012
  • Technical Info
    C-Print

Open space or the sky invokes feelings of transcendence to the spirit world. A visceral reaction to open space is not only a visceral reaction but they are feelings of calm expansive transcendence. We wade into it at every moment. I am in the conscious realm looking upon the sublime, the unconscious void, with a marginal comprehension of the unseen. I feel the unseen, yet the full conscious meaning of the unseen eludes me. I see better with juxtapositioning reality with the sublime, the horizon or the vast. Open space touches me deeply within as I live and experience the conscious reality around me. We concentrate on finding an object or subject. Space is alive and contains everything. It is the same space that holds all life that has lived, the life we live now, and all of the potential of the future. It is where all things come from and go back to. I believe that it is the same space into which Yves Klein leapt. I am on the margin of understanding. As a child, I was always the outsider - the American-born only child of Japanese expatriate parents living first on the East Coast then then on the West Coast. I always felt that I never quite fit in – never acclimated with the customs and social rituals around me. This gave me the view of an outsider of someone on the outside feeling left out. I can see and feel both the void and the reality living as one. The sublime is here amongst us. It has a bittersweet feeling for me.

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