Calligraphy

This project draws its inspiration from Asian calligraphy. Traditional calligraphy was an art, with years of intense practice. Each master expressed his unique style with his brush, drawn with ease in a (finally) natural way. I take a contrasting approach. No masters, no stars. I focus on modern, random and unintended structures or “signs”, “signs” found in the streets by accident. Signs, however, that convey to me a spirit, a density, a visual impact similar to traditional calligraphy. These “writings” just happened, by force of nature (eg corrosion) or due to human interaction. And I wonder if these signs want to talk. Or if they just provide a visual anchor for our own wonder, our thinking, or meditation.

The photographer Lu Mazen is a traveller. Initially, she travelled across the world. She saw different continents, old and new places, high-rises and high mountains. And people of all kinds. People of different cultures. She then entered into the working world of men and women. She travelled to the microcosm of daily life – made visible and enlarged through the lens. And she travels to inner places, places of my soul, to emotions, memories of times gone by. As memories emerge, so do images. Lu Mazen currently focuses on fine art photography, on still lives and images of our world.