"Ah yes, the earliest human awareness ... to be aware of yourself you have to separate from the world.  When you name the things around you - the sea, the air, etc - you separate yourself from the world.  The Legend of the Tower of Babel says that all human beings once spoke the same language, but because we tried to reach the divine, we were punished and our languages were separated.  My seascapes are before this happened ... they are about our common awareness."

Hiroshi Sugimoto from Dominic Willsdon's essay "Hiroshi Sugimoto; Aegean Sea, Pilion". 1990.
Singular Images; Essays on Remarkable Photographs. Ed. Sophie Howarth.  Tate Publishing.  Singapore.  2005.