Bronze / 2022 / Nature / Underwater
Watery Being - Jellyfish
When jellyfish is translated into Japanese kanji character, there are several ways to say : Sea moon, Water moon, Mother of water. It's profoundly interesting to imagine how the people of the old time looked at them in the sea.
The organically constructed body and the constant movement of the tentacles, which are intertwined like threads, bring the diversity of life forms to the depths of our mind, never get tired of seeing it. I tried to captured them in a moment of the most fluid form of life on Earth.
Eriko Kaniwa is a digital artist based in Tokyo, and the creator of SENSEGRAPHIA FINE ART. Sensegraphia is a conceptual redefinition of photography, in which the visual aesthetics of the photograph are used to develop and express the sense of nature that enables us to recognize that humans are a part of nature and that we are centrally involved in nature's dynamics. Through fine art, Sensegraphia puts forward a philosophy and creative activities that reestablish the essential unity between people and nature.
Awards GLOBAL ART VIRTUOSO: ELITE ARTISTIC CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD, PERSONA ART AWARD , SONY WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS, FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS, LONDON INTERNATIONAL CREATIVE COMPETITION, INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS, LE PRIX DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE DE PARIS, FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS, THE PHOTOGRAPHY GALA AWARDS/13th POLLUX AWARDS, TOKYO INTERNATIONAL FOTO AWARDS, NEUTRAL DENSITY PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS, MONOCHROME AWARDS etc.