Yama-Yoku #1 | "Joy"

The town of Okutama, Nishitama, Tokyo, Japan Sometimes, when you walk, the grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back. Your weathered, battered imagination is refreshed and rejuvenated. Hours feel like minutes and minutes feel like seconds, as the trees start to dance, flowing through your periphery - a blissful state of Flow, Wonder and Joy. 3643 x 5834 px ABOUT THE SERIES; "Yama-Yoku" is a collection of 9 pieces by the artist Radiapyon, featuring a spontaneous encounter with the mountains of Central Japan . An encounter that so captures and enchants the imagination, it begins a 3-year journey of engagement and immersion within the mountain trails and roads of Central Japan. I hope that captured within these works, flows the reinvigorated sense of awe, wonder and joy that sparked in the timeless and mysterious mountains of Japan during those three years. ( 2018-2021 ) "Yama-Yoku" ( 山浴 ) is wordplay on the Japanese term 'Shinrin-Yoku' ( 森林浴 ) - known as 'forest-bathing'.