Photo 1: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/01/india-ancient-art/map-interactive
Photo 2: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/01/india-ancient-art/behl-photography.html
Photo 3: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/01/india-ancient-art/behl-photography.html
Website: http://www.benoykbehl.com/
Benoy K. Behl has worked on documenting ancient paintings in the Ajanta caves in India, using only natural light. Behl has also visited many more sites in India, Thailand, Indonesia, and Myanmar. He is interested in much more than just documenting for historical purposes only. He was compelled to do this work to "convey the essence and harmony which underlies all of creation."
His work has been shown in National Geographic and the National Museum at New Dehli.
I was very interested in Behl's work because of it's ties to Hinduism and Buddhism. I have only begun to scrape the surface of the different philosophies of these religion,s but am very interested in how they relate to my work.
What caught my attention at first was just the fact that for thousands of years people have been using art to understand the world around them. And for hundreds of years artists, historians, philosphers, and anthropologists have been studying the art of other cultures and generations to understand the world around them as well.
While looking at these photographs I began to see some similarities with my current project. Thousands of years ago people were painting pictures to learn, understand, and remember their stories, beliefs, and memories. This is not much different from families recording their special moments to remember and understand their life and their world. While looking at my family movies I learn more about my history, my family, and my life. I can draw similarities between my Grandmother, my Mother, and myself. I see similarities in gestures and expressions. This helps me to better understand my family members. It helps me to rememberthe past and enables me to put a picture to certain stories that I have heard from my family members.
Another thing that I found to be interesring was the first photograph I posted on this blog,by Bruce Dale. This is an image of Benoy K. Behl in one of his photography sites. His figure is translucent, and ghostlike. This reminded me of the work done by Lorie Novak. She used her figure, translucent and ghostlike as well, with some of her family photographs. This is something that I have played around with. It seems people have the urge to not only look and understand the past but to make themselves a part of it. This is basic human psychology. No one wants to think of the world without them, we are all afraid of death. We are unable to comprehend death, the unknown is impossoible to fully understand. In this same way it seems that in order to understand the past, we tend to have the need to put ourselves into the past.
Photo 2: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/01/india-ancient-art/behl-photography.html
Photo 3: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/01/india-ancient-art/behl-photography.html
Website: http://www.benoykbehl.com/
Benoy K. Behl has worked on documenting ancient paintings in the Ajanta caves in India, using only natural light. Behl has also visited many more sites in India, Thailand, Indonesia, and Myanmar. He is interested in much more than just documenting for historical purposes only. He was compelled to do this work to "convey the essence and harmony which underlies all of creation."
His work has been shown in National Geographic and the National Museum at New Dehli.
I was very interested in Behl's work because of it's ties to Hinduism and Buddhism. I have only begun to scrape the surface of the different philosophies of these religion,s but am very interested in how they relate to my work.
What caught my attention at first was just the fact that for thousands of years people have been using art to understand the world around them. And for hundreds of years artists, historians, philosphers, and anthropologists have been studying the art of other cultures and generations to understand the world around them as well.
While looking at these photographs I began to see some similarities with my current project. Thousands of years ago people were painting pictures to learn, understand, and remember their stories, beliefs, and memories. This is not much different from families recording their special moments to remember and understand their life and their world. While looking at my family movies I learn more about my history, my family, and my life. I can draw similarities between my Grandmother, my Mother, and myself. I see similarities in gestures and expressions. This helps me to better understand my family members. It helps me to rememberthe past and enables me to put a picture to certain stories that I have heard from my family members.
Another thing that I found to be interesring was the first photograph I posted on this blog,by Bruce Dale. This is an image of Benoy K. Behl in one of his photography sites. His figure is translucent, and ghostlike. This reminded me of the work done by Lorie Novak. She used her figure, translucent and ghostlike as well, with some of her family photographs. This is something that I have played around with. It seems people have the urge to not only look and understand the past but to make themselves a part of it. This is basic human psychology. No one wants to think of the world without them, we are all afraid of death. We are unable to comprehend death, the unknown is impossoible to fully understand. In this same way it seems that in order to understand the past, we tend to have the need to put ourselves into the past.
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