Here are some stills from a short film I've been working on. It's based on a poem by Zakariya Amataya, "No Woman in Poetry." The way he uses the absence of a woman to share this feeling that beauty is so far from being attained ironically places a magnifying glass on the woman who isn't there. For this one, I wanted to put my gaze under a prism and understand how I use the muse, how much of it is a reflection of me, and how much of it my far from grasp desires.
“This is what I mean when I say ‘sacred geometry,’” Yumiko said.
She showed me a blossoming camellia
in a most perfect shade of pink
with centrifugal pedals overlapping each other
in a great symmetry.
I would have passed it by had she not told me to look closer at the little beautiful clues the universe shares.
“Some things are bigger than us, we just have to let it in.”
I met Yumiko Morioka at her home in rural Japan for a feature article. I can’t wait to share this story.
