Is space a medium for art?

Is art not necessarily need space?

Does space occupy the special position in arts?

Space / Place … the generality and the particularity those demand their own rights everytime.

The interior separates itself from the exterior, yet the interior pays respect to the exterior. The general and the particular come to play between the interiors and the exteriors.

Space for the arts are artistically manipulated space (no pun intended). Even the most minimal articulated space can be an artistic kind of space.

The starting point for articulated space is starting point for placing articulated art.

The old structures and the new structure; this is a one most used creative fuel for articulation of space. They’re touching each other, they are avoiding each other, they are distancing each other, they are closer and closer, they are moving, they are staying. Old and...

Is it possible to create a photograph without any content?

Is title necessary for a photograph?

Can a photograph exist by itself?

no reference

no content

no sign

no meaning

is it possible?

Today is raining all day … almost. So no significant photographs are being taken today. However, a quick off-side taking some of my neighbours’ flowers and vegetations provide a relieving photo-disire energy.

I must admit, this is a quite weird setup …
NEX-6, with the NEX-Leica M adapter, Voigtlander 40/1.4 lens, and one piece of cheap 10+ macro filter.

There is not ‘technical perfection’ to be made here, just a kind of image that I would like to do to express my day.

What’s the material of a photograph? Is light a matter? or it’s a form of energy? What about darkness? The negative of light as the matter of a photograph?

Is it too much to imagine a very subtle kind of photograph with almost no light? or is it a ‘blasphemy’ just to think of a photograph in terms of its shadows and dark areas per se?

Primitive Figures

A Kid at The Museum

Indonesia in Frames

Free WiFi

Reading this piece of historical text on photography makes me realise one of the most basic function of photography; the social function.

Most of the time I’m not being aware of this kind of social function. At times I think that photography would be part of me trying to create my whole individual, closed, safe, personal world. Photography is a private conversation between the world and the photographer. And then this conversation has become a liberated kind of conversation. The photographer gave birth to the life of the photograph in-itself. Once the photography is being produced, it’s not up to the photographer to determine the life (and death) of the photograph. It has its life of its own.

This matter is being deepen by the condition of online sharing. The life of the photograph gains its own private life through the network; the Matrix you might called it. The network becomes the...

Today I’m setting up the Ricoh GR with the Fader ND filter. Strolling around my neighbourhood, the overcast-with-no-sun-visible lighting condition making me to experiment with up to 2 seconds exposures.

Here is the Ricoh with the filter setup:

The first attempt on the setting is using an 8 seconds exposure shot. In a natural lit room with a very subtle window light, what could be better than doing a selfie test?!? haha.

[f/10 8s iso3200]

I hit the road and coming up with these three trees at the sidewalk.

[f/6.3 1/30s iso400]

Then, a few shot taken from an artificial pond near my workplace. Some panning could be nice, I think… here they are:

[f/8 1s iso400]

[f/14 2s iso400]

on a more stable ground: (I don’t carry a tripod)
[f/14 2s iso400]

What I do like doing such kind of experimentation is at times I need to trust my intuition on the image making process.

[f/16 3.2s...

Few days ago I choose to print some of my summer shots from Venice, let’s see how it’s turn out when framed and hanged on walls. Shot using the ‘old’ and trusty Fuji X100, these images shows how the camera is one of the best travel cameras.

Can you live up the delusional space of your everyday life? That’s what I had in mind… and it’s still stick to mine today.

This particular exhibit as part of Venice Art Biennale 2013 intrigued me. I’m not looking up to the original artists and art’s title and intention, so obviously the credit goes all to the artists, but these are my photography impressions for the artwork.