~ Korean Artist

New characteristics of Supreme Master Ching hai’s Hai’s photography
1. Simple look, profound meaning

Simplicity is the language of mercy. Masters have often times used fables and parabeles to teach their disciples from since the ancient times. It is easy to understand the masters’ Masters’ world because of its simplicity and therefore easily get the message in themlikewise to understand the meaning of their messages. Simplicity in Master Ching hai’s Hai’s work helps the readers make themselves assimilate themselves in the master’s Master’s world and is a strategy that makes assists the readers to understand the meaning of the work by themselveson their own.
In the “Noble Wilds”, simplicity and complexity have been well balanced within the text. There are many photos of wild animals and everyday sceneries, but as we take a deeper look into, it the meaning, especially when combined together with the presented text, is very implicative and profound.

2. Special cooperation between photography and poetry

As mentioned before the profound meaning is efficiently revealed, especially in particular through the combination of photos and literary text. These two different complementary genres each have their independent character, but yet combining these two is more of an experiment that leads the readers to the world of enlightenment that the author has achieved. For example the following poem about the scenery of the lake, in on page 51, delivers resonates howwhat the author have felt and cognized about the tranquil lake. (Page 51)

The tranquil lake
Offers only solace
A silent charm
Always beautiful
Always calm.

In this short poem the image of serenity is being described in three different words as ‘tranquil’, ‘silent’, and ‘calm.’ The image of serenity that is onfound in  the entire piece, not just on of which this specific text these lines are an example, represents the perspective of author. This serenity is the time when we gaze upon the world while standing still, and things reveal their true selfnature. This The author’s serene placid perspective  of the author will overwhelms the readers and leads them into an introspection which will allows the readers to find the rediscovery of beauty within the serenity bosom of nature’s serenity and the calmness it gives to us. This enlightenment helps us understand what is the root of peace is, and the richness that can be found everywhere in the natural world. (Page 52)

Within this calmness
Life thrives in abundance
The Trees will be full and lush
The littles will grow strong.

In this serenity all the living things realize the essence of the universe is love and peace. They Therefore, theythus free themselves from anxiety, freely develop themselves in this newfound freedom, and then arise to become a whole being.

3. Special relationship between the author and subjects

In Master Ching hai’s Hai’s photographs, the subjects are n’t far from being just mere the objects of for classification and description that stands on the other side of the author’s lens. In her photosRather, the author is either very close to the subjects or already at one with them as a whole being with them. For example, the photos in page 70-71, at the first glance can could be seen viewed as an ordinary picnic day ofor the duck family. The However the author poetess left bestows the following dedication for the mother duck. (Page 70-71)

Do you feel the strength of love
Do you see the awesome courage
The true beauty in this mother’s eyes?

This poem shows that the author artist has already became one with the presence of the mother duck. Through this oneness the author artist can understand its (her) everything,  and can therefore can show respect for its courage and devotion and courage.

4. Photography, communication, and the tool of enlightenment that goes beyond

While reading and appreciating Supreme Master Ching hai’s Hai’s work, we realize these photos and texts are the medium that connects us to enlightenment.

Together With with, and saturated by, ‘Love’ and , the other main theme of “Noble Wilds” is 'communication.' “Noble Wilds” shows the possibility of communication among different species. The mMessages such as about “Communication that connects us all” and “Silent communication”, among others, have beenare described conveyed constrictively instructively such as in the text story of the mother swan Pitu.

We do not have to use verbal language. We communicate in silence. We need not talk about love, harmony and peace. We live in them. –Pitu.

The language Pitu uses to interact with the world is the silent language. Also, the communication between the author and the ‘noble Noble wilds’ Wilds’ in the book doesn’tn’t be  mediated necessitate the medium of by language.
Readers of the “Noble Wilds” will likewise get absorbedbe enraptured and then absorbed into such kind ofa silent communication while reading bathing in the text. This will guide the readers into will open those experience to a glimpse of a world where everybody everyone, including all the other species included, unites into one, ; trusting each other as one, share sharing everything as one and understanding each other as one, in love.

The motive of serenity might also be the premise for this kind of a communication. When the inner self becomes calm and the illusory barriers and of distinction and difference between species get rid ofdissolves, the true communication among all beings might may begin. Perhaps this is the vision of the new world that the "Noble Wilds" tries aspires to deliver, and ‘the path’ the author wants wishes the readers, indeed the whole world and creation, to take.
 
~ Korean Artist