Entry Title: " Absorption and Expansion"
Name: Matthew Thomas Cianfrani, United States
Category: Professional, Photography


Entry Description:

I lived in an apartment in China that overlooked an empty lot in the outer-ring of the city. In three months that empty lot was filled with a fully operational shopping mall. I watched the building's development at a surreal, almost time-lapse speed. Using the photograph as brush and computer as canvas, I have invoked the tradition of 12th century neo-Confucian ink painting. These expressions of landscape and form result in a complex aesthetic directly linked to a philosophy that exalts harmony, natural order, and spiritual reality.