Shinichi Maruyama and her art of motion

Shinichi Maruyama is a Japanese photographer residing in New York that portrays figures and elements dancing and therefore showing the motion of life through those movements.

In his project named 'Nude' he realized a series of photos of dancers, naked in front of the camera. It's about composed images that show the action of dancing, without defining with details the physicality of the dancers. The perfection of the human body melts with time and motion, decomposed in seconds to then rejoin all together in a solid sequence.
Maruyama realized this project in 10 thousand photos per body. Regarding this series he says, " I tried to capture the beauty of both the human body's figure and its motion. The figure in the image, which is formed into something similar to a sculpture, is created by combining 10,000 individual photographs of a dancer. By putting together uninterrupted individual moments, the resulting image as a whole will appear to be something different from what actually exists.

With regard to these two viewpoints, a connection can be made to a human being's perception of presence in life."
Another series he created and that made him famous was 'Water Sculpture' in which his love for motion was already visible, letting the shapes of water be the protagonists, spurts on a white background.
About his creative process and his 'flow' of work Maruyama says, "Although being Japanese, we are not so familiar with the psychological meaning of "flow," however we are very much influenced by this state of mind through Zen culture such as Judo, Sado (Japanese tea ceremony), Shodo (calligraphy), etc. All of these sports and art forms which are originated from Zen culture require self-discipline. Being disciplined takes you to a state of mind of "flow." The Kusho series was created from memories of practicing calligraphy in my childhood.

I loved the nervous, precarious feeling of sitting before an empty white page, the moment just before my brush touches the paper. Kusho is calligraphy in a way.

Instead of on paper, it is written in the air. Throwing ink and water in the air numerous times requires self-discipline."