Matsuo Basho’s haiku, “An old pond; / A frog jumps in— / The sound of water”, merges outer reality with inner stillness through kire (cutting) and ma (pause). This sensibility informs my process: arranging flowers, I reflect on time, space, and nature’s silent poetry. In photography, boundaries between flowers and water, snow, or soil act as visual kire. Backlighting creates margins that suggest stillness and transition. Like a haiku, my images offer quiet spaces where viewers engage in personal reflection beyond what is seen.
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.
