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Looking
at Masami Mori's images of flowers, people might nod
if someone suggests their association with traditional
Japanese paintings or woodcut prints. The images formed
by delicate lines are shadeless and subdued in color.
In a way he seems to be subconsciously exploiting traditional
oriental beauty with the most advanced optics and chemistry
available from technology today. |
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His
creative work starts with the production of a negative,
rather than from his subject, a flower. He re-photographs
in black and white an image that was originally taken
in color. In this extra process, he eliminates unnecessary
lines and surfaces in order to create a distinct outline
of his image much like traditional artwork is fashioned
in a drawing or on an engraver's plate. |
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Then
coloring starts. Instead of applying different colors
in the various fields of the woodblocks or filling pigments
in a drawing, he colors his images through the manipulation
of various photographic techniques, using light, filters
and masks. |
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It
has been more than ten years since Masami Mori started
photographing flowers. At an earlier stage, he tried
several photographic materials, but he found from his
extensive use of Polaroid materials in his professional
work that their unostentatious colors satisfactorily
matched the flowers of his imagination. |
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