Dry Garden #01, 2026
Photography : black & white edition, assemblage · 5 x 5.5 x 3.5 cm 2 x 2.2 x 1.4 inch
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Photography : Unique artwork
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Artwork sold in perfect condition, not framed
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Dimensions ( cm • inch )
5 x 5.5 x 3.5 cm 2 x 2.2 x 1.4 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Description
The series Dry Garden, photographed in winter in Hokkaido, Japan, transposes snow landscapes onto the surface of river stones, materializing an image that would exist only on the retina. The stone, already shaped by centuries of water and time, receives these ephemeral landscapes, adding a new layer to its own millenary geological history.
This is a series of 9 copies, but each and every piece may be considered unique.
The concept draws from the observation of karesansui, the dry Zen garden that suggests landscape through stone and sand alone, proposing a bridge between contemporary photography and the contemplative Japanese tradition. Each piece is a tactile fragment of a landscape that no longer exists: something between photography, landscape, and relic.
Winter in Hokkaido offers a landscape defined by absence: bare branches, muted light, a silence that erases most visual reference points. Photography alone could only preserve this as a fleeting, two-dimensional trace, destined to fade with memory. By fixing it onto stone, the work reverses that logic, granting weight, texture, and permanence to something that would otherwise dissolve. The gesture recalls the Japanese sensibility of mono no aware, a quiet awareness of impermanence, and wabi-sabi, the recognition of beauty in what time has already marked and eroded.
Each stone, chosen for the history already written into its surface by rivers and years, becomes a small relic: a fragment of landscape meant not only to be seen, but held.
Presentation
Humberto Lemos has been a photographer for 40 years, with his current production essentially focused on authoral photographs. His works invite us to contemplate landscapes that seems to be from other worlds. Images that remind us of how little we are, where emptiness and silence are exalted as protagonists in the absence of human elements.
Based in Portugal, Humberto travels searching photographs without addresses - he created the concept of Imaginary Landscapes, deconstructing places and their referents, producing images that come out of the obvious geographic expectations. He works with minimalism on oriental influences.
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