Dimensions: 329 x 241 mm

For EMAKI our digital space is a construct of the picture scroll - the scroll conjures narratives through which the dancer figure voyages. The Japanese ink art of Suminagashi is digitised to suggest sentient hills, mountains, ocean, geology, weather systems and the Five Elements. Dancer Meri Otoshi conveys the human figure deeply held in nature. EMAKI illuminates the concept of mono no aware 物の哀れ, literally ‘the pathos of things’. Also suggesting ‘an empathy toward things’, or ‘a sensitivity to ephemera’. It is a Japanese term for the awareness of impermanence, or the transience of things imbued with a wistfulness at their passing. This is one of a series of fine art prints from the project. With each sale we donate $1 to the New Zealand Forest & Bird Society Te Reo O Te Taiao.