PURPLE

A video-art + sound design project by Paris Kain.

 Eye witness accounts of the atomic blasts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki mention seeing a pillar of purple fire creating a purple sky with purple clouds.  The purple flower in the film is an iconic reminder of the fragility of humanity, as well as the beauty of its impermanence. Ankoku-Butoh performance movement rose to influence in Japan after WW2 as a creative method to deal with the devastation and aftermath of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. “Purple” plays on the dichotomy of grotesque beauty. Inspired by both Japan’s Ankoku-Butoh performance movement as well as the Wabi-sabi view of aesthetic,  these two profound creative philosophies form a bond. "Purple" is an ode to Buddhism’s three marks of existence -impermanence, suffering, and absence of self nature.