This collection called, "Flowing from rock to rock", was produced from images captured in the elusive city of innovation and rigid customs, Tokyo, Japan. The subject of my work is the personally astounding revelation that people can only find themselves truly free by seeing through a lens of restriction. Structure, order, limits, boundaries, walls, whatever you would like to call them, exist all around us. The initial feeling when confronted with these seemingly oppressive things is to rebel and restore our sense of freedom which has been offended. So what could I possibly mean by stating that, in essence, restrictions make us free?
I shall use one of my photos to further explain my view. The image titled "Goosebumps" is of a man standing in a temple facing away from its luminous door. If no door, nor temple, for that matter, existed, he would not be able to venture inside and feel the different atmosphere created by the filtered sun rays and the incense smoke trapped within the sanctuary. Without the building he would have no sense of any of these things and would have had no where to explore and challenge his freedom. These limitations or confines, in a sense, give us a place from where we can find comfort and grow stronger in order to become more open to travel outside the door.
As with all things in life though, a second side to this reality exists. Once we are strong and brave enough to risk more we may find ourselves very much attached to what gave us this original comfort, this our order, this our strong hold. The two sides of the coin, the beauty of accepting what is and letting it go, again and again.
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