Dai Nakamura
SAKURA (Series)
DESCRIPTION
SAKURA or cherry blossoms have been Japan's favorite flowers for centuries, dating to the Heian era, 801-1200. Sakura and representations of form a collective memory of Japanese who grow and preserve them for agricultural rituals uniting with nature.
Petals, sun-light, wind and water unite in
a collective national bond to, reverence for and memory of nature through the ages.
AUTHOR
My photography explores a wide range of human experience—a working class New England community, Japanese family relations and social customs, landscape and urban development, a non-cliche essay about cherry blossoms—reflecting Japanese aesthetics and interaction with nature.
Collections:
The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, The Danforth Museum of Art, Fidelity Corporation, The Worcester Museum of Art, in Massachusetts, USA, and the Shionoe Museum, Shionoe, Japan, among others.
Awards:
2023 Analog Sparks, Bronze in Culture
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