Spirit of photography
I went to see several photography exhibitions during March. March is a funny month, not winter any more but not quite like spring (here in Tokyo). Thus sometimes I would wear a heavy coat or just a thin sweater to go out but no matter where I go it was always hot in the exhibit halls. At every places, viewers were asking the artist questions concerning mechanismes.
So the purpose of my visit to exhibits is to talk to the photographers. However its not the photographers themselves I talk to but I talk to the photographies. Of caurse if I actually voice my thoughts problems may arise so I do it quietly in my mind. I walk around within the gallery many times if I wanted to look at them carefully and slowly. And I would leave having had many dreams as though Alice in Wonderland. I feel very mach encouraged when I discover something, like a fluttering candle light in the dark.
"Preparation of mind in order to give the viewers liberation". I think it is one of important spirits of photography.
Noriko KAWAMURA (April,10 1996)
Copyright(C) Noriko KAWAMURA 1996