when Hockney joins the Japanese on the Pacific coast he does something similar but with a deliberate LA affectlessness which isn't there in the Japanese
I love that Haiku and the Hockney painting. Always list that Hockney in my top 10. But I'd never made the connection to Japan before, very interesting connection there!
It makes sense though. I always associated the Hockney with sound, coming from the splash. It was cemented into my favourites when I made that connection on a hazy summer stoned day looking at that and listening to Deniece Williams.
The Hockney is Lynchian too. I have met far more Chinese people in England than Japanese but do get the occasional Japanese tenant I meet in my Lettings related job.
my sense of how things stand is that this appeals (and i mean the visuals as much or more than the beats) precisely becasue this state is now no longer attainable for most of us
and that we are trying to recover it. that part of the appeal of Japan is that it holds out the promise of recovering this precise state depicted in the image above
the kind of still and sweet sad solitude depicted there, the soft silence and the rain falling, the space and quietude, is exactly what the internet makes impossible
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