Broken Glass Print

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B R O K E N G L A S S P R I N T

This project explores the Japanese concept of 'Ma'

as a result of looking at the relationship between visible and invisible.

In 2011 the earthquake in Japan caused many to stop and question their values.

What remained after the earthquake were not possessions but the less tangible ideas and memories.

As we stand at this crucial point I am asking what should inform and direct our future.

Broken glass print explores making new creations through

destructive acts such as breaking glass.

I step on glass, then print the attractive patterns of 'cracks'. Beauty always exists in negativity as well.

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The Japanese concept ‘Ma’ is the truth as well as the evil. It is because ‘Ma’ is on the quest for the truth.
‘Ma’ is not simply physical space but a slight moment of reflecting in our mind, which rarely emerges into the physical world.
‘Ma’ is evidence rather than contradiction given that this world is chaotic.
That is because this life involves irrationality.
Therefore when you touch even a little bit of the sense of the truth, you are in raptures. This is ‘Ma’.
‘Ma’ can change a moment into eternity because of its instability and fragility.
The only thing creating eternity is change.
What encourages change is instability because change is caused only by breaking.
Break and birth is not on a line, but on a circle.
They are always together, not separate.

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TAO -The Universe-

Based on the Zen painting, ‘The Universe’, I generated a set of circle/triangle/square.
Breaking material enables us to gain light beyond the visible world.

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