In 1839, Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre invented the process of photography.
After then, paintings gradually focused into more abstract expression, whereas photograph became a complete and perfect way to capture the real world.
Paintings or sculptures are more “close” to artists. But photographs are taken by using camera by artists. Then I thought Abstract Art may be suitable for taking photographs.
After that, I had this strong sense of curiosity, if I took a photograph of an Abstract Art or a Minimal Art, would that still be called a ‘photograph?’
I started by cutting a cardboard imitating those artworks, lighting them, and took a monochrome picture by using silver halide without using a Photogram technique.
The photograph I took was complete and realistic. There was no brushstroke, no tenderness of paintings.
From mathematical point of view, if the original art and the photograph I took looks the same, both of them are equally the same thing.
But humans have contradiction, recognizing same things as different.
There once was a Mathematician that tried to solve the four color theorem.
After 124years, the four color theorem was proved by computers, but come people criticized as inelegant, as it was proved by using “computer” not by humans.
Today we are free to choose either digital or analog. So as art.
In digital aspect, there’s only 0 or 1.
But analog could define the space between 0 and 1.
And that space between 0 and 1 is what I seek, the ambiguousness of what’s real and not.
What I created is a photograph, but I shall leave the border of my creation to people who sees this.