Emma Flaherty Ceramics
“I wanted to see my ceramic pieces through somebody else’s creative eyes, and also to have a set of photos to use for my ceramic business. It was such a magical, calm, productive photoshoot, at a location that she had carefully chosen. Leigh-Ann was able to capture the mood that I was after perfectly, and she produced a stunning collection of beautiful photographs. Inspirational.”
- Emma Flaherty Ceramics, Perth, WA
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Ma is a central concept in the ceramic work of Perth-based artist Emma Flaherty. Quite naturally, it formed the guiding principle for the photographs we created together recently at the old church on Queen Victoria Street in North Fremantle. The church is currently disused and empty and seemed a perfect place in which to explore the notion of Ma.
Ma can be described as a pause in time, an interval or intermission. It speaks of silence as opposed to sound. It is the spaces between the notes that give meaning to the music, the pause that denotes the beginning and the end of a breath. Ma beckons one to be still. To be present. To observe.
Japanese can visually identify with the meaning of Ma from its kanji symbol. Ma combines door 門 and sun 日. Together these two characters depict a door through the crevice of which the sunlight peeps in 間. Ma is considered integral to the evolution of the human psyche.
"Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow"
- Aesop