This project started about six years ago and was supposed to be over in a few months. It's over now :-)
I am emotionally attached to it for many reasons. First, the subject, i.e., east-and-west. The past fifteen years have been an intoxicating roller coaster inside Japanese culture, my wife has become a scholar of ikebana and transferred an appreciation for Japanese aesthetics, especially re: volumes and (a)symmetries. Second, the age of the Ilfochrome, which has passed its prime time and can only produces pastel colors, and not those screaming hues of when it was young and full of energy. She (he?) too has aged, but I like it the way it is now: old and a bit beaten up. Third, the nature of each unique and irrepetible print, that has stolen an instant and allows for no encores.
In spite of our hard work the two of us are still many miles away from gaining even that minimum of understanding of what drives Japanese visual arts, of course.
All of the above has nothing to do with whether the project is any good :-) I just wanted to put it in a somewhat personal context.
There we go.
http://12tonephotography.com/Vases.-East-and-West/1/
Cheers
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