Tuesday 17 May 2011

Beautiful body

There is an amazing photographer called Izima Kaoru who has a series of photographs called "Landscape with a corpse".
I find his images enchanting, a most beautiful death that anyone would wish for.
Such a poetry and tranquility within such a horrid subject.
Gorgeous women in lavish clothes in idyllic locations; and yet they are dead. But even so, we stand over them, admiring them, perhaps wishing we were them.

Could this be Ophelia?

Photo source: http://starrydeloneli.blogspot.com/2008_10_01_archive.html

Photo source: http://www.phillipsdepury.com/auctions/lot-detail/-IZIMA-KAORU/UK000109/141/12/1/12/detail.aspx

Or perhaps this one?

Photo source: http://elogedelart.canalblog.com/archives/2009/03/01/12768198.html

Some serious questions

Who does an idea belong to? Or perhaps can an idea belong to anyone?
Can a character have an owner? And if anyone were to claim that role, wouldn't that be the writer who gave birth to him?
Is it impossible for two people in the whole world to have the same interest, the same curiosity, the same passion for a character?
Are all Ophelias the same? I think yes.
Are all Ophelias different? I am definitely sure they are.

I began this project to find my own Ophelia, not anyone else's. During my journey I have encountered many other Ophelias, and I looked at them, I admired them, I was happy that they existed, but never have I tried to immitate them.
I am me and I respect myself and my inspirations. And in doing so, I push myself and I acknowledge my inspirations.
And they are all here for all to see.