Yami No Hikari
 
Between 1831 and 1833, Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai created the celebrated series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, Japan's most revered sacred mountain, a volcano dormant since 1708.
 
Almost two centuries later, Salvador Sàez uses an everyday object worn by time—the porcelain bowl from which he eats breakfast—to create 36 (+1) images exploring the beauty of wabi-sabi, or the extraordinary within what might otherwise seem banal. The constantly changing light reflected inside the bowl, like magma within the volcano, generates unique, unrepeatable images. As in nature, the possibilities are infinite, and what occurs at one moment can never be seen in exactly the same way again, evoking mono no aware and an appreciation of transience.
 
Six haiku written by Sàez accompany the images, opening windows onto the soul of the captured moments.
 
Yami No Hikari, "light in the shadow", combines aesthetic and spiritual concepts through yin and yang: opposing yet complementary forces. The artist invites us to reflect on our inner transformation when we embrace this duality and find harmony in opposites, contemplating existence as an emotional dance of light and shadow. A gift for the soul, an unrepeatable visual poem whose beauty lies in each moment's fleeting nature.
 
The series' final photographs were made in the Holy Cave of the sacred mountain of Montserrat, deepening the spiritual dimension of this singular visual exploration.