Bankon Isarbodhi

I create abstract art photograph. Bankon Isarbodhi is my pseudonym. I was born in Kunming and live on the Isar riverside in Munich. I have no definitions for my art photographs. They originate from reflections in this & another world.

My first photograph was taken with Fujica STX 1N camera, which my father gave me around 25 years ago. I went through a long period of time to seek what I like to express through my photographs.

One day, when I finished meditation on Isar river side in south Munich, I suddenly realized that I just witnessed the origin of lifes, which continue or start from decay. The photograph taken by that moment entirely changed my understanding of reborn, death, beautifulness, unbeautifulness and more. This is not a kind of knowledge one can learn from books and it changed my thinking on values of my future photographs.

The source of life is abstract and surrealistic, but perceivable. Without having any definitions I can feel the life as entirety in the universe. Definition creates walls and wars. It can be a sharp blade, which cuts things into pieces and discriminatory, from where we may lose the sense of integrity.

Stones, woods, water, forest and mountains are major subjects of my abstract art photographs. Lights, shadows, colours and textures hidden under their ordinary appearance can be reinterpreted in an abstract and surrealistic way.

Abstraction and surreal removes walls, brings distance and reconsideration. From there consciousn...

2023.02: Exhibition „Spring 2023“ by The Chateau Gallery, USA.
2023.02: Exhibition „In Dreams“ by The Chateau Gallery, USA.