Mitama represents an effort to become more
comfortable with mortality. The answers to my questions about death have
never been satisfied by my own culture's religions. After several journeys
to Japan I realize I have been unconsciously drawn to photographing objects
offered at grave sites. I have come to view this ritual as a form of spiritual
communication. The ambiguous space caused by combining different photographs
represents my effort to create a visual space that is not quite real; a
comfortable place somewhere between life and death. Each image is a digital combination of three
separate photographs taken in Kitamura, north of Kyoto in the summer of
1996.
Mitama represents an effort to become more
comfortable with mortality. The answers to my questions about death have
never been satisfied by my own culture's religions. After several journeys
to Japan I realize I have been unconsciously drawn to photographing objects
offered at grave sites. I have come to view this ritual as a form of spiritual
communication. The ambiguous space caused by combining different photographs
represents my effort to create a visual space that is not quite real; a
comfortable place somewhere between life and death.
