Kenji Aoki : Photography

Kenji Aoki
‘Grey’ Series
Photography

Born in Tokyo in 1968, Kenji Aoki spent his formative years training and learning about design at the Kuwasawa Design School, which he chose for its Bauhaus-style philosophy of education. Having taken a comprehensive approach to design, it was photography that made the strongest impact on him. Aoki credits this to having learned the lessons of using a camera as a tool of ‘expression’ rather than one of ‘recreation’. For Aoki it was not the sculptures of Rodin in museums, nor the view from the top of Everest that inspired him, it was “a normal coffee cup at home”. An ordinary object that could be found anywhere became the source for Aokis photography, as he soon realised he could change his view of an object to see something new, finally allowing him to become a person of ‘expression’. [Extract : Bio]

Kenji Aoki : Website

Puddle thinking

Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, “This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself in, fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!”

This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it's still frantically hanging on to the notion that everything’s going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise.

I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for.

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1 brancolina
November 26, 2010 at 8:59 am

great works with pages of the book. this made me think of Angela Glajcar’s works with paper

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_meDKGj8Fp2g/SX2RnNYxarI/AAAAAAAACOo/lkISthV4nQQ/s1600-h/IMG_8801r.jpg

2 krystina stimakovits
November 27, 2010 at 8:36 pm

Reminds me of Bridget Riley’s paintings…..lovely subtle and understated works.

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