Silvia Merler

Photographer

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Location: Washington DC

Nationality: Italian

Biography: I am a soul with good intentions, and a camera. I've been told that I'm shy in appearance but not insubstance, I consider it a compliment and hope my photographs conveys the same feeling.

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Tokyo Blues

silvia merler

Dec 3, 2015

"Mono no aware" (ç‰©ã®å“€ã‚Œ) is a Japanese expression that literally means "the pathos of things". It is used to indicate the awareness of transience of things, and both a gentle sadness at their passing as well as a longer, deeper sadness about this state being the reality of life.

This project is my try to visually substantiate this feeling:
http://visura.co/user/smerler/view/tokyo-mono-no-aware

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