Response to Pictues [1]

The first picture that I chose was a picture from Zenebou. She took a picture that represented movement, she said that she spinned around in a circle to capture that element. I also thought that by taking the picture in a Dutch Angle shot, it also added to the abstract picture. This picture was very visually interesting and kept you looking. At first when you look at the picture you can't really tell that it's grass, or it doesn't appear to look like grass. It almost looks like a paint brush making lines across the picture. It really captures the element of movement throughout the picture very well, and it relates to the Sogetsu because it is simply grass, but changed into something beautiful and turns into a real art form.

The second picture that I saw was from Stephy. It was her picture titled 7/3 and had the purple and white flowers in it. The flowers are all connected but they are spaced apart from one another and if you look closely its almost as if each individual flower doesn't touch one another. When I saw this photo, to me it looked like these flowers could be used for an ikebana display. This picture captured the element of space throughout a ikebana display and that is why this picture really got my attention. She said that in the demonstration they talked about having a 7/3 ratio in the arrangement and this picture is a PERFECT example of that. You can clearly tell that the white flowers are the 7 and the purple flowers are the 3 in the ratio. Another thing she mentioned was openness, and by looking at the photo, you can see the flowers are spread apart from one another naturally, unlike flower arrangements that are bunched together.

Overall both of these pictures represent ikebana and the concepts presented with composition extremely well. They both capture two different but important elements and are crucial to the art of ikebana, space(openness) and simplicity. Each photo looks like ikebana in picture form.