These radically unpopulated pictures, all shot from
the same horizon line, are feats of technical precision and sublime beauty; their «emptiness» stands in stark contrast to the fullness of the political pictures.
Not exact matches
Look at the
same image with the eyeline (or
horizon line if you prefer) depicted by the red dotted
line to see what I mean:
Two large canvases feature the
same figure of a winged character on a color - field backdrop divided by a
horizon line.
Sugimoto's Seascapes (begun in 1980) depict bodies of water from the English Channel to the Bay of Sagami, each photographed in the
same stark composition of a
horizon line dividing the sky and sea.
In each series, the photographs are hung half an inch apart, with the
horizon line running continuously at the
same level, creating panoramas that completely immerse the viewer.
Recently here in SW Virginia there has been a slight change in the methods they are using, instead of trails from
horizon to
horizon there are now «clouds» which are strange in that they are relatively all the
same size, not billowy like they would normally be but solid in the middle and then all wispy and fuzzy on the edges and all
lined up in a row, like they are starting and stopping the amount of stuff they are using.