Word: nakao
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Continuing with the theme of bold illumination is Harvard senior Hitomi Nakao's photograph of a naked woman seemingly bathed in the swirling light of a projector. This photograph, although darkly colored and almost confusing, radiates warmth and sensuality. Indeed, this nude is much more striking than Nakao's other nude photo series, in which a woman is photographed close-up from several different angles. The woman bathed in projected light is more a statement than an exploration, asserting the compatibility of the body and technology...
Every morning at 4:55, Egyoku Nakao, 48, head priest at the Los Angeles Zen Center, dons the golden brown robes of her station and presides over 33 students engaged in Zazen, Zen's painstaking sitting meditation. Her authority, like that of hundreds of senseis before her, is absolute; a student would no more contradict her than question the break of day. A few hours later, however, the Japanese-Portuguese American slips into civilian clothes and rearranges the meditation cushions for an innovation called a Practice Circle, where the talk is free and her view is not privileged. "The center...
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