Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Miho Museum


The Miho Museum is about an hour out of Kyoto. It's worth the trip. The building is designed by I M Pei, the funding for the museum came from a spiritual movement, Shinji Shumeikai founded by Mihoko Koyama, an incredibly wealthy textile heiress. But that is information. 
This is about sensation. It is a beautiful day, the leaves are beginning to turn. They hold the promise of more vivd color. It is a hopeful day. The way the circles of window or opening tunnel plays with inside/outside of whatever is inside or outside but are inescapably yoked together (google the phrase ichi-soto). That idea is imparted to the viewer at the behest of the foundation. Again information. I humbly submit  a photo essay that attempts to impart this concept. 


The entrance door opens and closes the circle



You walk to the back of the lobby and see a beautiful landscape that transcends inside or outside. 

You are beyond a definition of inside or outside space.




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