The image that the worship that may have once existed gazed into.
Beauty that transcends its ascetic practices.
Circulation of fluctuating wild nature in the night mountain and the mountain of the sun.
A. PREFACE
“SANSUI” drew it’s first breath when a man visited the Tohoku Region of Japan.
He determined a mythical pilgrimage route which may have once existed through conversations he had with local mountain ascetic hermits and research.
By connecting the two brutal midwinter mountains in north, Mount Choukai and Mount Gassan (according to folklore, known as mountain of the sun and mountain of the moon respectively), with a straight line, he saw compelling images of the monochrome world in which snow mountain, whirling rivers, breathtaking…show more content… Perhaps, the beautiful footage which can be described as a modern “Shan Shui” (a monochrome landscape painting), evokes Japanese primitive mythology.
B. BACKGROUND
The man was inspired by conversations he had with local mountain ascetic hermits to construct hypothesis on the mythical pilgrimage route of mountain worship which may have once existed and he unearthed it. Then he visited there.
*Whilst in this process, he drew an imaginary line between two mountains, Mount Choukai and Mount Gassan (according to folklore, known as mountain of the sun and mountain of the moon respectively on the map. This approach let him hold a comprehensive viewpoint.
For the man, the whirling rivers, breathtaking waterfalls, immense forests, expansive earth and endless sky appeared on the imaginary line evoked imagery of ancient Japanese myths.
The first half of this footage begins with the scenes of Mount Choukai and Mount Gassan and trace back the road in the same structure as if it replicates the perspective of the transcendental being connecting the sun and the moon.
This footage seeing the landscape as if walking in the sky gives viewers a feeling that they exceeds their ordinal perception and change their sense of
