2010 pigment print (kyokushi) 30 × 30 cm edition5, 100 × 100 cm, edition3
In the & Mandala » series, Shunsuke Ohno puts in evidence the morphologic similarities between the worlds of the infinitely small and the infinitely big. Successively, we fly over Tokyo city, its skyscrapers and its big arteries of Tokyo city and we plunge into the lichen that grows on the bark of trees and leaves. The eye of the viewer comes and goes between these two dimensions. The "micro" and "macro" dimension each cover a fraction of our world: small and natural in one hand, big and built by Man, on the other hand. The term & Mandala » designated a sacred symbol, a graphic representation of the universe, used in Buddhism. According to this theory, the world is made of small worlds, interlinked into bigger ones, ensuring in this way the harmony of the whole. It's the concept of interdependency: each part of the cosmos depends of all the rest. Shunsuke Ohno explains: « Each part carries in itself the totality. And because everything is interdependent, nothing exists in itself. Even the nature of matter and light becomes a link of interdependency. This link is not intrinsic but can changes by the interaction between an observer and the observed object. As soon as a phenomenon is observed, it takes its particle aspect. The fact of apprehending a reality gives it its sense». His statements contains le operator mode of photography: any other art makes it with such responsibility of demiurge.
