Unshakable - Journal Entries

Entry 07 — The Warrior - The Weight of the Blade
Entry 07 — The Warrior - The Weight of the Blade
The warrior's stillness is not weakness. It is the discipline that makes the action possible when the action is required. The bow is not defeat. It is the bearing of... Read more...
Entry 06 — The Tower - The City That Holds
Entry 06 — The Tower - The City That Holds
The peony sits in the lower left corner, enormous relative to the Tower, which should be impossible and is exactly right. The house symbol planted in the foreground of the... Read more...
Entry 05 — The Living - Roots and Blossoms
Entry 05 — The Living - Roots and Blossoms
Two flowers associated with impermanence and beauty in Japanese tradition — the peony as the enduring, the full-bloomed, the earthly king of flowers; the cherry blossom as the fleeting, the... Read more...
Entry 04 — The Rebirth - The Bud and the Bloom
Entry 04 — The Rebirth - The Bud and the Bloom
The Rebirth is the collection's most explicitly hopeful image and also its most structurally interesting one. It doesn't show you before and after. It shows you before and after at... Read more...
Entry 03 — The Embrace - What Holds
Entry 03 — The Embrace - What Holds
Two figures folded into each other — heads bowed together, hands finding each other somewhere in the middle, the boundary between one body and the other becoming indistinct in the... Read more...
Entry 02 — The Duality - The Space Between
Entry 02 — The Duality - The Space Between
Unshakable — Journal Entries Élevé Homme | Les Maisons de Lucien 揺るがない — Yuruganai — Unshakable 運命を纏う — Unmei wo matou — Wrapped in fate   Entry 02 — The... Read more...
Entry 01 — The Flower - The One That Remains
Entry 01 — The Flower - The One That Remains
The ink drips are the detail that makes the image honest. They tell you that the bloom has cost something. That holding this shape, opening this fully, reaching this far... Read more...