Paul Cupido - Ursa Major (signed)

Paul Cupido
Ursa Major (signed)

Self-published, 2024
Book size 24 x 17 cm
158 pages
English language
Hardcover
First edition of 500 copies
Signed by the artist

"During a pilgrimage between Tokyo and Abashiri on the island of Hokkaido, I discovered the Zen concept of "Mu," which expresses a notion of emptiness, often associated in the West with something negative. Yet it is full of potential because stripping away is a gateway to creation."

For Paul Cupido, the Moon is an existential symbol. It curls man into the infinitely small while connecting him, through that nothingness of which it holds the secret, to the infinitely large, guiding ship captains and all dreamers through the night. In Ursa Major—the Latin name for the Big Dipper—the star's reflections become a lifeline in the heart of darkness: the photographer imagines a hallucinatory and punk story set on the island of Miyakojima, in Okinawa, regularly hit by storms and typhoons. In the pitch-black night of a post-apocalyptic setting where concrete reigns supreme, a couple ventures outside. The shadow of the demons from Kaneto Shindô's cult film Onibaba hovers as darkness takes over the heavenly beaches, the tropical blue seas, and the endless sugarcane fields.