As a direct result of spending far too much time exploring the vast virtual depths of YouTube content, I stumbled upon this video a while back and with little correlation to my questionable mental state found myself absolutely awe-struck. Since then it has circulated a fair amount appearing in YouTube’s ‘Featured Videos’ section receiving nearly two and a half million views and torrents of well-deserved praise. Produced by a prodigiously talented group of Japanese artists who collectively call themselves The Rinpa Eshidan, this short film features a time-lapse sequence of a week’s worth of art that demonstrates indescribable bounds of fluidity and creativity. So crank back the levers on your office chairs to a deep lean, dim the lights, light your spliffs and prepare to be blown away.
The Rinpa Eshidan (whom I will now refer to as “TRE,” both because it’s easier to type and effectively sounds for a lack of better words, badass) fundamentally focus around the premise that it is in the construction of a piece, not the end result that “art” occurs; “The group’s main activities are performing in live-art events and creating videos of art in action. Instead of focusing on the finished project, we believe the process of creation itself is where art comes to life and our videos aim to engage our audience in that process.”
At that I leave you with another equally beautiful and quite possibly doubly psychedelic video to marvel at out of the TRE collective titled simply; “Room.”
If you’re inclined to learn more about them and access more of their artwork, below is the link to their website.
A happy upcoming Mother’s Day to all of you and a unified “Hear, Hear” for gawking enviously at artistic ability that relentlessly crushes all personal hopes and aspirations of attaining notoriety.
