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As with the literary version, it is difficult to say what makes image poetry into true poetry. To be disrespectful, it apparently seems to be enough for some people simply to string loose words together in an abnormal syntax with a lot of white around them, and if it's handmade paper, you have another anthology of poetry. In the same way, video art can end up being a handy trick. Well photographed shots, perhaps strung together, or even superimposed on top of each other, in a kind of pictorial rhyme, and of course with an accompaniment of artistically composed sound effects, could in a quasi-automatic fashion, produce a devastating poetic effect. Yamamoto skillfully avoided the snare of the easy way out and shabby inspiration. 'Apsis' has become a restrained and convincing painting with the additional values of movement, rhythm and manipulation, not just as technical gimmicks, but influencing and supporting each other. Yamamoto skillfully limited himself to a balanced repertoire of images. As the light from a light-house shines out and fades away, so his images of the sea, of clouds, of a smoking refinery, of the veiled moon undulate back to the starting sequence, and then on again, as seagulls accentuate the silent peace in a hollow in the dunes and distant ships’ hooters make the languidness tangible.
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Erik Daams
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