Emptiness Photograph

Hanshan and Shide (Japanese: Kanzan and Jittoku) are the models for the two figures in the "Broom and Brush" series by fru. The two figures, like Hanshan and Shide, form a completely opposite pair and represent two sides in each of us: Intellectual and proletarian, dreamer and dream, feelings and action, man and woman. Hanshan and Shide are popular figures in Zen painting who have been depicted many times as a pair. In Zen Buddhism, they are some dazzling, eccentric figures who in one way or another violate the strict rules of conduct and discipline of Zen Buddhism. However, this transgression is interpreted as a sign of the enlightenment they have already attained, and they are therefore revered as role models in Zen. They are the two sides of the longing within us to be free from all restriction and compulsion and from all foreign domination. In this painting here, the person representing Hanshan is painting an ensō (and is a portrait of the artist) and the figure representing Shide (Model ERIA) has emptied the space with the broom and is feeling into this emptiness with his hand. The Chinese calligraphic character 無 means emptiness. The original meaning is to dance and the ancient character shows a dancing figure with long hanging sleeves as a picture.

Photography:Digital on Fine Art Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:16.5 W x 22 H x 0 D in

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