Liszi’s interests in spirituality and its existence in contemporary photography led her to research why the metaphysical can be important in our culture and everyday life.
‘To be a good photographer you have to be a scientist as well,’ says Sugimoto, who likens his Lightning Fields to early photographic experiments, as well as a cosmic events, such as ’the first meteorite hitting the Earth’. Yet science does not occlude religion. ‘People still need another way to understand the world besides logic’, comments Sugimoto, ’and we’re turning to art and spirituality to help us understand our environment and the world.’
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Book: Art + Religion in the 21th century pg.81.
Seeking the essence, the ontology, the origin of not every day perception, looking beyond the unseen, towards the magical, are daily routine for Liszi, especially because spirituality does not have a ‘specific meaning in academic analysis.’ (Lipsey, 1988, pg. 6-7) Experiencing different things by practicing yoga or meditation without any religious practice is one way to make connections with our pure nature in this modern age, where people pay attention to this ’new’ materialistic world after the 20th century. There are too many material purposes, humans can forget to take care of ‘self’ and their ambience. The unseen is there but our focus is not in the present, therefore we cannot sense those details and the essence of things. Vibrations generally are everywhere around humans, these affect us invisibly. Their influences can give more focus or subtract it. Liszi’s main purpose is working with vibration as electromagnetic waves such as light, sound and with the most common medium in humans and in the earth, water as information, vibration carriers. Her idea is based on Masaru Emoto’s book The Hidden Messages in Water and Liszi’s mantra chanting practice.
Her photograms express the nature of the elements, their connection and interplay without any physical impact by material instrument.
There is just pure light, sound, and water.