He believed that landscapes should capture not only the beauty of nature but also its threat and terror in order to render an authentic representation of the sublime,
evoking feelings of awe and human insignificance.
I want to reveal their beauty and uniqueness in order to, at the very least,
evoke warm
feelings and ideally, a kind
of awe and admiration towards them,» she tells OGP.
From George Inness, who «translates just the light and
feeling of a fixed hour,» to Vincent van Gogh, whose cypresses are like «voices
of aspiration, joy or fear,» to Jackson Pollock, who, Robert Rosenblum wrote, «
evokes the sublime mysteries
of nature's untamable forces,» artists continually try to capture and replicate the
awe - inspiring and the invisible.
In abandoning straight lines for these exclusively curvilinear forms, Aoki attempts to
evoke a
feeling of spiritual tranquility and
awe in her viewers, and to express the important contradictions
of her contemporary time.