Mushishi and the Pathway to Dreams

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binary world, Descartes, Dream, Ginko, Imeno no awai, Kant, Mushishi, objective, Plato, reality, subjective

All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream. – Edgar Allan Poe

It’s arguable that mankind would never invent the dichotomous division of reality/illusion and body/soul if it’s not because of dreams. It’s hard to believe in dreams because they disprove the existence of the body. Say for instance, we know that our being is composed of our body and soul (thought) by which the sensing belongs to the nature of the flesh.

On the contrary, we know that we’re dreaming if we know that we can hear, see, and feel through our thoughts; hence we can say that the things that we’re experiencing must be false since we leave behind our bodies whenever we go to the dreamland. But at the same time, the physical (real) world creates doubt because it’s hard to deny that dreams exist since these make us to think, doubt, and feel.

Tamayura, Photographs… and Discussion of Realities and Truths

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Fu, Ideal Forms, modernist, photographs, Plato, postmodernist, realities, tamayura, Tamayura Hitotose, truths

The ability to embed soul and emotion on photographs is not within the domain of abilities of the camera but instead entrenched by the artist on his or her shots. Then, passion is transmitted to this inanimate object as the artist crafts his or her vision to become reality. As the popular saying suggests “a picture is worth a thousand words.”

As a shutterbug, one of the things that I find interesting in Tamayura Hitotose is the interpretation of photographs; take for instance, the presence of tamayura (“children of the light”) in Fu-chan’s photos. The Maestro perceived those unusual tiny lights in Fu’s dad’s picture as the result of the overflowing gentleness and love between the father and daughter.