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Tokyo, Japan, 2015 #271  Pigments, gampi paper and gold leaf.

#60766 Japan, 2018, Pigments, gampi paper and gold leaf.

We have drawn inspiration from the aesthetics of Haboku landscape painting to create Nyx series. For sure you can learn more on the internet about Haboku, but to explain what Haboku expresses, nobody does it better than Dr.James Fox in "The Art of Japanese life" BBC4 documentary when describing Tōyō Sesshū painting: "It doesn't look like much. It just looks like some spatters on a page but gradually an image, a landscape begins to appear. If you look at this picture longer, you still see more. The way it unfolds in front of your eyes. Look at the variety of blacks and strokes. This variety of marks combined and mobilized to create this landscape and intoxicating aesthetics, one that prefers ambiguity to clarity, absences to presence, and the hazy mysteries of nature. ... Empty space is as important as the landscape it surrounds. This emptiness is surely a visual metaphor for the silences of zen meditation."

Japan, 2016, #600. Pigments, gampi paper and gold leaf.

"The trees that dreamed of being a storm"

Japan, 2016, #503. Pigments, gampi paper and gold leaf.

Japan, 2016, #502. Pigments, gampi paper and gold leaf.

The effort is worth it. The final print is a super-matte pitch black surface. It is perfect for photos like this one.