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Image Description:</sup>
This is not a parable told in light, not a rational absolute message, and is not conceptual work for a change. I thought I would give my viewers’ intellects a rest and let their intuition out for some exercise.

Another title that is a play on words. Ghost craft as in ‘ghost ship’, mainly, but also ‘craft’ as in evasiveness/guile to hint at the visual nature of the forms, and also ‘ghost[’s] craft’ as in the artful working of the spirit. I’m getting better at finding names imho. [laughs]

Direct influence from Japanese art philosophy and style, mainly in composition as you may notice. In visual terms I am, as always when I work with water, in debt to Hiroshi Yoshida in particular. As clear as the influence is, it’s also clear that this departs in many areas I would not compare it directly, it is it's own species. I would still consider it an example of wabi-sabi driven artwork, [almost textbook, in fact], because it’s a rare case of me not using my elements symbolically [which disqualifies it]. Although I often use natural elements consistent with wabi-sabi, I almost always hang concepts onto them making them symbols in a westernized manner changing profoundly the nature of the work. The image is therefore somewhat a unique item in my collection, and therefore is moved out of scrapbook and into the gallery to add variety.

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(Open Edition) Print Version: Tone Version

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