The set of photographs titled “The Pulse of the Lake” by Stevcho Naumoski represents
the changes of the life cycles by creating a parallel between the man/woman
and the lake.
Through the expression of the real/physical appearance and the visual-aesthetic
choice of photographs, which form several diptych versions, the development of the
idea for connecting nature and man, and the analogies done through this selection,
are evident. Analyzing them from a formal aspect, Naumoski’s photographs are in
black and white color and are presented in the form of diptych that contains a
fragment of the water/lake surface, while the other one is a close-up impression of
the surface of the human skin, which carries all the traces of the changes in life.
As the title implies, by presenting the pulse of the lake and the rhythmical movement
of the waves, the author explores the terms of transience and consistence, the
unavoidable change and the eternal cyclic movement. By connecting the lake surface
and the human “surface”, he creates a parallel of probably the only thing that is
eternal and constant in nature (man being inseparable part of it) – and that is
change. This stance is essentially close to the teachings of Heraclitus whose slogan
“everything flows” is exceptionally close to Naumoski’s reasoning. According to it,
the constant changes or flows are in fact the most basic features of nature.
Through the emphasized symbolism of the relation water-man, where the water is
the primordial beginning of life, the most important element of existence of life, at
the same time disturbing and comforting force, the author creates a kind of photoambient
in which the narrated story is implied in aesthetical, artistic photography.
The fragments from nature, the fast sequences of transience, the evidence of
transience are all articulated in a manner of landscape with a meditative and
timeless sonority, pulse, rhythm, eternal movement and change… The black and
white play of senses creates an ambient of excitement and disturbance on one
hand, but also Hesse-like meditative feeling of absolute calmness of the spirit, as
well as coming to peace with all the phases and moods of water and man.
- Maja Chankulovska-Mihajlovska, art historian.
B&W prints 67 x 35 cm.
Young
Old
Exhibitions:
03-10. 2012 - At "Le Murate", Florence, Italy
Comments & Critiques are warmly welcomed! :)
