大橋一弘

Kazuhiro Ohashi

A shorter day than yesterday sets in, dyeing the western sky pale pink.
Basho is said to have admonished, "If you learn about pine trees, you should learn that from pine trees." It's said that this means " You do not "understand" the pine tree with your own understanding and knowledge, but "learn" from the pine tree, setting aside your personal opinions and deliberate intention."
Then, we pick up the resonance that arises between ourselves and the object. This is an awareness of our own understanding of the world, an awareness of ourselves, and therefore an encounter with the subject.
Haikai may be a method of putting a fragment of ambiguous recognition into the sound of words rooted in the body.
The camera is also a tool that captures images that enter our consciousness, whether consciously or unconsciously, capturing implicit experiences and transcending preconceptions.
Days go by in the season that goes around, piling up insignificant little pieces, but pieces that will never come again. In just scooping up these, the image of the photographer, the viewer, and even the universal figure of man may be reflected.
Vision and language resonating together as a "Kotonoha" (means "words", and also "fragments of things").