The humble home

The humble home

The humble home

Our house is our corner of the world. Our first universe, a real cosmos in every sense of the word. It is body and soul. Through my photographs I want to take you to a journey on the domestic places that shape and hold our dreams and memories. Houses and rooms; nests and corners; objects and details from the daily life at home. No space is too vast or too small to be filled by our thoughts and our reveries. My aim is clear: I want to show that  the humblest dwelling has beauty. Experiencing its primitiveness, a primitiveness which belongs to all, rich and poor alike, if they are willing to dream. 

In this series, I am deeply affected from the book ”The Poetics of Space” by the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard, who wrote:

“Maybe it is a good thing for us to keep a few dreams of a house that we shall live in later, always later, so much later, in fact, that we shall not have time to achieve it. For a house that was final, one that stood in symmetrical relation to the house we were born in, would lead to thoughts—serious, sad thoughts—and not to dreams. It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality”

Yūgen

Yūgen

Yūgen

My new project ( in progress) is inspired by Yugen .

The word “yūgen” (幽玄) has its origins on the traditional Japanese aesthetics and it is strictly speaking “an untranslatable word” has been most commonly carried out simply as “elegance”,”grace”, “understatement”, “intimation”, “composure”, “equilibrium”, “serenity”, and “quietism”.
It is not at all presentable to our sense-intellect as this or that, but this does not mean that the object is altogether beyond the reach of human experience. In fact, it´s experienced by us, and yet we cannot take it out into the broad daylight of objective publicity.
It is something we feel within ourselves, and yet it is an object about which we can talk, an object of mutual communication only among those who have the feeling of it.

Hidden behind the clouds, but not entirely out of sight, for we feel its presence, its secret message being transmitted through the darkness however impenetrable to the intellect. (Daisetz T. Suzuki)
Yūgen does not, as has sometimes been supposed, have to do with some other world beyond this one, but rather with the depth of the world we live in, as experienced through cultivated imagination. Is an awareness of the universe that triggers emotional responses too deep and mysterious for words. A greater challenge.

 

Self Discovery

Self Discovery

Self Discovery

 

The best day of my life was the one on which i decided my life is my own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame.  The gift is mine – it’s an amazing journey – and i alone am responsible for the quality of it. This was the day my life really began.

 

”The only journey is the one within”  – Rainer Maria Rilke –

 

 

 

 

The Essential

The Essential

The Essential

People matter. Relationships matter. Love matters. Just the feeling itself of being alive, the absolute amazing fact that we are here right now, breathing, thinking, doing. For at the end of the day, what matters it’s always the moment; it’s always the people.

 

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