– Between the Void and the Fluctuation

Photographic art is an act of reflecting the forms of emotion, memory, and prayer that dwell in the depths of human consciousness through light.
Within this field, photographic fine art occupies the domain where the artist’s awareness crystallizes into creation — where works and artifacts emerge as social embodiments of beauty.
It is the moment when the desire to see transforms into the urge to show, and beauty becomes self-aware through expression.

The notion of Zero-Formula (Reishiki) extends beyond this framework of art, approaching the very threshold of artistic limitation.
It stands on the borderline of what can and cannot be seen — on the horizon where phenomenon and existence intersect — and gazes upon “Zero (0),” the infinite origin of all that is and is not.
Here, zero does not signify nothingness; rather, it is something that breathes at the edge of nothing,
a subtle vibration at the limit where the world touches the self — an unformed fluctuation.

Such fluctuation resonates deeply with the Japanese aesthetic of mono no aware:
things that undeniably exist yet are destined to vanish,
the silent sensitivity born in the instant where light meets shadow and gently parts again.
Photography captures not the object itself, but the delicate interval —
the tremor that moves quietly within the human heart.

Thus, Zero-Horizon Photographic Art is a structure, or system, designed to experience and return that very fluctuation into form.
Pressing the shutter is not merely the act of recording light;
it is a meditative gesture, a prayer returning traces of existence to the horizon.
In that moment, to photograph becomes to return,
and the image transforms from an artwork into the quiet voice of being, mediating between time and memory.

“Zero” signifies the most tranquil threshold attainable by art —
an attitude that seeks to grasp the faint residue of light that remains upon the palm,
even while facing the infinite beyond.
To capture without possessing, to return without erasing —
within this paradox lies the essence of photographic art.

The Zero-Horizon Theory embraces that paradox.
It listens for the faint breath of beauty dwelling between the void and the fluctuation,
where photography ceases to be technique or representation
and becomes the most transparent form of prayer connecting human and world.