Light and Space

I recently came across the artist Tokihiro Sato, a photographer, who focuses mainly on his ideas about light and space. His work concentrates mainly on his movements through different locations and different spaces and then tracking his movements using light. Because of the long exposure he uses on the camera, and the fact that Sato is always moving to create the various light spots, the photos dont actually depict the image of Sato, they just depict his prescense.



I love these photos, the way that everything feels so busy and alive with movement yet its perfectly still and calm at the same time. Each image allows itself to become bathed in light but doesnt get dominated by it, it still maintains its original atmosphere. Even though the photos were taken in fairly ordinary landscapes, Sato has managed to create a much more lyrical poetic world of his own within the image.

Cvijanovic's 'Love Poem' portrays a world with no gravity, freeing us of all our everyday worries and burdens, creating for Cvijanovic, his own world where he would feel more at ease, like his own paradise.
Sato creates a similar aura in his photos; by portraying his prescense in different spaces using light, he is able to create his own atmospheric paradise where he is free to roam anywhere.
Both artists have managed to create their own lyrical poetic world using normal objects in this one. In a way, it's like they are saying there is just as much beauty in the world we are already living in, we dont just see it or dont appreciate it as much as we should.