Inspired by Ikebana, this work leads us into a dialogue with space, time and gravity. For me, Ikebana embodies the "flow and change of time", symbolized by the natural arrangement of the flowers that balances yin and yang within the "distortion of space" caused by the gravity of the container. After shooting, the fence that supported the flowers and container were digitally removed, making the flowers and container appear to be floating freely in the sky. However, the connection between the flowers and the container remains intact, creating a visual paradox.Contact print from digital negative
Keiichiro Muramatsu was born in 1972 in Shizuoka, Japan. He attended a Focal Point professional photography course in Vancouver in 2001-2002. After going back to Japan, he established a portrait studio ”The Fourth Avenue Studio” in 2008 in Shizuoka, Japan. He has started to learn “Nageire” (literally, “thrown into”) which is a freer form of flower arrangement, placing innocent wild flowers simply in rough-hewn vessels, from 2013. He also established an atelier for producing his works in 2014.
