RustyBug wrote:
Persistence in search for his voice (even if not finding it for 50 years) ... now that makes more sense to me than intent of no intent or an intentionally message-less message in his images themselves.
The genera as I understand it and as hundreds of others submerged in it have explained; it\'s not the intent of no intent messageless. It\'s the attempt to communicate stillness in harmony with one\'s surroundings - the message of non-intension (kinda). This is the zen thing I mentioned before. It\'s like being in a rapid river as opposed to observing it from the shore. From the shore it looks confused and turbulent, destructive and chaotic. But floating downstream in it things appear calm and fluid. This is a very large and very loud part of Japanese social consciousness and I see it expressed in the indigenous art here a lot. This is one reason why I think his work is so stereo-typical and average. The first time I experienced an awareness of this form of zen myself was about 30 years ago in the underground here in Japan. There were millions of black headed people all orderly going to or from somewhere all wearing essentially the same thing and moving in like manner (like a river) yet there was a unique beauty in whichever direction I looked. Standing still in it was an entirely different feeling than \"going with the flow\" so to speak like the river example of being on the shore or in it. To capture and share this experience needs a kind of mindlessness. You\'re not minding the subject nor the camera much just kinda going with the flow of what would otherwise appear chaotic and \"sampling\" the sights and energies as you go. Yeah, just basically randomly snapping snapshots as you tool around in the flow of things - indeed.
Once back at the computer with your digitized \"experience\" you sort for the ones which had some interesting composition, contrast, moment, or whatever and try to accentuate that feeling in post, and then publish. If the person is good at recognizing the key attributes during the sort and was competent in timing and direction during the shoot and additionally knowledgable of how to use PS like tools to accentuate then the communication of this conscious mindlessness (or mindless consciousness?) and flow within chaos can be very strong and profound. I dunno, maybe profound isn\'t the right word but it strikes certain human chords if you get me. Diado\'s stuff however is weak in all of those departments so to me it comes off as very average and unexceptional. I think it\'s a legitimate genera but just Diado isn\'t a very good example of it. And I guess that\'s why a lot of other people here didn\'t \"get it\" either - he\'s not accomplished at expressing the art of this genera even tho he may have received acclaim for it.
Again just me 2¢.
Dec 06, 2012 at 06:59 AM
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