The diptych has been an art form since the early days of photography when pairs of images were presented together either side‑by‑side or facing one another in a folding frame. The idea then was to create a visual or conceptual relationships between the two images that represented more than one frame on its own.
This image is about allowing the blacks to connect together via a diptych. I am excited when new interpretations can be made of everyday scenes.
In this case, I captured strands of Japanese Silver Grass glowing on the edge of a shadow combined with a section of the palace wall. Displayed as a vertical diptych the black tones merge together to create a new and intriguing shape that to my mind reflects the aesthetics of Hikizan no bigaku. (The Aesthetics of Subtraction.) The black areas and white area around the image paying respect to Yohaku no Bi. ( The beauty of empty space, where the space is as important as the subject itself.)