“For me, it was very important to see the ocean, the big ocean. I liked this image and I started to think about a series. It had to do with the idea of ancient man, facing the sea and giving a name to it. Naming things has something to do with human awareness, with the separation of the entire world from you. Language has to do with the need to communicate with a world that is separated from you, the separation between inner world and outer world would be less clear without language. So with the Seascapes I was thinking about the most ancient human impressions. The time when the first man named the world around him, the sea.”
– Hiroshi Sugimoto (1948-)
Roadside Roses 