“ Mandala in Digital Integration
Unconsciousness “
In
a “Short History of Photography(1931)”, Benjamin firstly coined the term ‘ Optical
unconsciousness’
,writing
that
“Another
nature … speaks to the camera
rather than the eye: in
a sense that the space informed
by human eye consciousness gives way to a space informed by
the unconsciousness through mechanical camera eye .
While
it is commonplace that we have
some idea about what is involved in the act of walking , we have no idea at all about what
happens during the fraction of a second when a person actually takes a step.
Photography, with it’s devices of slow
motion and enlargement, reveals the secret.
It
is through photography that we
first discover the existence of this optical unconsciousness, just as we discover the
instinctual unconscious through psychoanalysis.”
In
the digital age of the 21st century, nearly 100 years after Benjamin's book was
published, photography and editing techniques was dramatically changed and
developed .
Digital post workflow process with digital editing software can provide you
ability to freely enhance, integrate, and
manipulate photography images.
I
am confident that you can encounter much
more fantastic unconscious world (so called digital integration unconsciousness) than the Benjamin ‘s optical .
My
‘Digital
Integration
Unconsciousness’
project was embodied with a hint of decalcomania technic which one of the ways past surrealist painters used to express their unconsciousness
After
capturing momentary water droplet
movement through camera super
high-speed shooting,
digital
decalcomania shape (very similar to
Mandala) was finally came into realization , followed by the post photo integration
process.
For
me it was a wonderful moment to watch what decalcomania form to be created .
In
fact , this is
not a ‘optical unconsciousness’ but a second wave of unconsciousness to be found in the process.
In
addition it was very lucky moment
for me, a Buddhist or photographer, to discover the Mandala figure through the
project.
