Yesterday I have introduced two new images to the my recent project Serene landscape. After I looked over all images in this body of work I realize how they are changing. More and more images become more abstract. At least it feels to me, they look and feel more. They are loosing their documentary value and increasing more they emotive value. That is exactly what I am trying to achieve in past few month. At the beginning I had no idea how do I tackle that need I had for long time. Need to create images which evoke more feelings.

One evening few month ago in Tokyo I had that kind of melancholic almost depressive feel. I didn’t know what to do and I feel like doing something crazy. Day before I went in the hotel shop and bought shaving gel. Transparent little bluish gel. Originally intended use was for shaving :-) That Monday evening I took old filter and pour hair oil on it. Took few images in attempt to make something out of ordinary. It didn’t worked very well and I was looking for something different. Than I saw the gel in bathroom. I did wash the filter and put gel on it. Thick layer about 4mm in a center of the filter. What crazy image I have got! At the beginning I couldn’t see anything. I switched to wider lens and suddenly it all was getting more sense. I open a lens more get more soft images close more down get sharper one. So I was playing that evening and next few days with it and as a result I expressed my depressive mood with following pictures:

Yesterday I made following photograph and I am loosing the document even more and I am more and more happy about it. For now it feels like set of emotive landscape images, but I have idea to combine these with other sort of photos and express something I am more and more fan of. Idea that there is no ego, that all around is one. The idea of Zen. I am reading and listening work of Alan Watts for some time now. His ideas and view of Zen is floating in my mind for rather long time. Read a little piece from him at Serene landscape / mind project page.