Kusho

Conceptual artist Shinichi Maruyama achieves this effect by hurling black India ink into water and photographing the millisecond the two liquids collide. Capable of capturing this phenomenon at a 7,500th of a second, Maruyama takes full advantage of a recent advancement in strobe light technology which can record physical events faster than the naked eye can perceive them.

Maruyama's series Kusho, which means "writing in the sky", attempts to 'arrest in space and time the sublime intersection of two different media before they merge into one'. The technique becomes a form of Shodo performance art, or Japanese Calligraphy, with the gesture executed in the air rather than on the flat surface of paper.

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