Digital Exhibition II

LIGHT, SHADOW & TRATDITION

All quotes from Jun’ichiro Tanizaki’s work, “In Praise of Shadows.”

Shan non Foulis, Angus McKinnon, James Olsen

This is a documentation of our exploration through Jun’ichiro Tanizaki’s text “In Praise of Shadows”. Within, there will be individual interpretations and adaptations of symbols, motifs, and imagery outlined in Tanizaki’s work.

-Representation II Group 19

TABLEOFCONTENTS Pictoral Exploration

01 - 12 13 - 24 25 - 36

James Olsen Angus Mckinnon Shannon Foulis

Drawing or Graphic Composition

37 - 42 43 - 48 49 - 54

James Olsen Angus Mckinnon Shannon Foulis

Light the Night

01

Photograph taken by James Olsen | Elda Park, Adelaide

Ldueayers of darkness are vital fundamental part of beauty within a shadow to the deception and detail it cast.

02

Enclosed

03

Photograph taken by James Olsen | Greenbank, Queensland

Itrue t is essential that there are different variations of darkness that results in beauty.

04

Equalibrium

05

Photograph taken by James Olsen | Paphos, Cyprus

C

ontrast allows adding layers, depth to the photos which highlights key focus points and detail, you can’t have Distention without a difference.

06

Hope

07

Photograph taken by James Olsen | Paphos, Cyprus

S

mall burst of light shining through the small window a glimmer of hope that the grass is greener on the other side.

08

Vast Expanse

09

Photograph taken by James Olsen

D arkness is essential and critical component of beauty it differentiates and depicts the detail between light and dark, if everyone was prosperous how would distinguish who is prosperous.

10

Merger

11

Photograph taken by James Olsen

Iattractiveness t’s the combinations of light and shadow that creates and generates to what we see in front of us.

12

Roman Baths

13

Photograph taken by Angus Mckinnon | England

“

Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.)�

- Horace, The Odes of Horace

14

Pantheon

15

Photograph taken by Angus Mckinnon | Rome, Italy

“

Darkness is a great opportunity to discover the divine face of the light�

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

16

Branching Out

17

Photograph taken by Angus Mckinnon | Blue Lake, Mt Gambier, South Australia

T

“ here is strong shadow where there is much light.�

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

18

Frivolity

19

Photograph taken by Angus Mckinnon | Madrid, Spain

W

“ hat would your good do if evil didn’t exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?”

- Mikhail Builgakov

20

21

Photograph taken by Angus Mckinnon | Adelaide

Depth and Detail

22

Sagrada Familia

23

Photograph taken by Angus Mckinnon | Barcelona, Spain

Stained Windows of Enlightenment

24

Hidden Ambiance

25

Photograph taken by Shannon Foulis | 34 The Strand, Northgate

D elve into the crevices of the mundane.

Only then will one truly see true ambience.

26

Reflection

27

Photograph taken by Shannon Foulis | 34 The Strand, Northgate

C

ause and effect.

The endless rays, following their line.

Only to return, ricochet, bounce & re-allign.

Forever.

At least forever, Until they fade to grey.

The endless rays.

28

Window to the World

29

Photograph taken by Shannon Foulis | 12 Bank Street, Adelaide

From within the darkness, light speaks more to the soul.

30

Spotlight

31

Photograph taken by Shannon Foulis | 11 Kings Court, Adelaide

Obscurity is only complimented by clarity.

32

Twilight

33

Photograph taken by Shannon Foulis |34 The Strand, Northgate

The light of day tickles the dark of night.

34

Spotlight

35

Photograph taken by Shannon Foulis | 34 The Strand, Northgate

Light and its antithesis within lacquerware

36

PG13

“Were it not for shadows there would be no beauty. ”

37

Drawn by James Olsen

“

Darkness is indispensable element of beauty�

- Tanizaki

38

PG20&21

“Were it not for shadows there would be no beauty. ”

39

Drawn by James Olsen

B

“... y cutting the light from this empty space they imparted to the world of shadows that formed a quality of mystery and depth�

- Tanizaki

40

PG20&21

“Were it not for shadows there would be no beauty. ”

41

Drawn by James Olsen

“

Were it not for shadows there would be no beauty.�

- Tanizaki

42

“Were it not for shadows there would be no beauty. ”

43

Drawn by Angus Mckinnon

F

“ or a woman who lived in the dark it was enough if she had a faint, white face – a full body was unnecessary.”

- Tanizaki

44

“Were it not for shadows there would be no beauty. ”

45

Drawn by Angus Mckinnon

W

“ e delight in the mere sight of the delicate glow of fading rays clinging to the surface of a dusky wall, there to live out what little life remains to them.�

- Tanizaki

46

“Were it not for shadows there would be no beauty. ”

47

Drawn by Angus Mckinnon

W

“ ith lacquerware there is an extra beauty in that moment between removing the lid and lifting the bowl to the mouth…”

- Tanizaki

48

“Were it not for shadows there would be no beauty. ”

49

Drawn by Shannon Foulis

via Photoshop with Wacom Tablet

T

“ he ink would not have been this bluish color but rather black, something like India ink, and it would have been made to seep down from the handle into the brush. �

- Tanizaki

50

51

Drawn by Shannon Foulis

via Photoshop with Wacom Tablet

F

“ or so accustomed are we to electric lights that the sight of a naked bulb beneath an ordinary milk glass shade seems simpler and more natural than any gratuitous attempt to hide it..�

- Tanizaki

52

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Drawn by Shannon Foulis

with 3Doodler

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“ e do our walls in neutral colors so that the sad, fragile, dying rays can sink into absolute repose.�

- Tanizaki

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