Cows In Flowers

Simon Hantaï , Meun 1967

Il s’est mordu la langue, c’est pour ça qu’il est furax

Diable #diable #demon #creature #creaturedesign #ink #traditionalart #inkdrawing https://www.instagram.com/p/BtGrvFKh2cm/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=l2397cn7fzf7

Beautiful Kyrgyz landscape with traditional felt rugs

Rinko Kawauchi, Ametsuchi series (2012-2013)

What inspired me was a dream I had one day. It was of scenery so amazingly beautiful that it made me almost scared. I woke up thinking how beautiful it was. I wasn’t sure if that location really existed, but if it did, I wanted to visit it. About six months later, I saw what I saw in my dream on TV. The location did exist. I found out that was I saw was called noyaki. It is the practice of protecting a grassland by burning a field. It has been done for about thirteen hundred years. Without noyaki, a field would turn into woods. Beautiful grassland cannot be maintained without burning the field once a year. What amazes me is that it doesn’t happen naturally but is maintained by human intervention. I am very much interested in the flow and cycle of human practices. It is not only the theme for Ametsuchi but also a foundation of all my work.