Sources: photography

Reflections on finding the essence of art in the removal of what is familiar, or, perhaps, the suppression of context, or something like that. The suggestion is that the artist, rather than suppressing detail in order to create a model that emphasizes a subject, suppresses markers that might provide a context within reality, thereby opening the space for interpretation and imagination — allowing the mind to do more work than the model. Pardoxically, the conclusion is that the artist (Fan Ho, in this case) “is capable of showing more than is really there.” Featuring senryu and photographs by Fan Ho. Short and beautiful.