The image is a non-physical and unsubstantial phenomenon. Holography is a
technology which makes the un-palpable image possible to visualise.
With this media technology, I tried to visualise transient Japanese
images. Since cherry flowers bloom very briefly, and then scatter, they
have become a symbol of the ephemeral beauty at the heart of the
aesthetic sense.

Falling Cherry Blossoms was produced from several pulse-laser master plates of falling petals, then double-exposed for the finished rainbow hologram. The resulting projected virtual image floats in front of the eyes.

Using master plates, as an ideal optical lens, I hope to develop new
spatial, spiritual and aesthetic images which have never been witnessed, either
around us or in this transient world.

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Shunsuke Mitamura spoke in Aesthetic Dimensions
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