LO
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『LO』シリーズのランドスケープ作品は、
(Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film「LO」展プレスリリースより)
For the “LO” series, he traced the roots of Buddhism while traveling through the Mustang district in northern Nepal, where Tibetan Buddhist culture and traditions run deep. Over roughly a month, he traversed terrain at elevations of around 2,500 to 4,000 meters. When the air is clear, the 8,000-meter peaks of the Himalayas rise into full view, and the vast landscape conveys the depth of geological time and the grandeur of the natural world.
The landscape works in the “LO“ series are framed in a distinctive semicircular format, which Tsuda says grew out of the question, “Does a landscape need to be rectangular?” A certain feeling of buoyancy that stayed with him both in Nepal and after returning to Japan called to mind the view from a cupola (window of the type found at the top of a spacecraft or church tower), and it was this association that gave rise to the semicircular landscape. The resulting images, in which the upper edge of the field of vision seems cut off as if by the eaves of a roof, heighten the viewer’s awareness of the distance and relationship between themselves and the landscape before them. They may also echo the experience of ancient peoples in Nepal, looking out at the scenery through the mouth of a cave.
(From the press release of “LO” exhibition at Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film)





























