Where do you draw the line as a human being? Written record is only, what, a couple thousand years? And this scientific revolution is less than a hundred years. And computers only a few decades! We've changed so much. It's amazing, the speed of changes.
Hiroshi SugimotoIt's pre-photography, a fossilization of time, Americans have done the Zen garden to death. I wanted to do something different.
Hiroshi SugimotoMy concept was, within the five-minute video, for people to see one million Buddhas. So I made a group of the images and it keeps accelerating to reach this one million point. The movie was invented from the still photos.
Hiroshi SugimotoI don't love the postmodern statement: "You shouldn't be spiritual if you are the artist."
Hiroshi Sugimoto