Girugamesh

Mountain Mist- by Kaii Higashiyama, was created with an interesting Japanese aesthetic in mind - Yūgen.

Yūgen / yoo-ghen / n. (Japanese)

An awareness of the universe that triggers emotional responses too deep and mysterious for words.

Yūgen is an interesting concept, it's similar to what we as artists would like to achieve in our work, even though we don't always want the consumer to start having an existential crisis, it shares a similar visceral emotion to immersion, which brings out an individuals introverted intuition, which may be a part of their personality they do not always get in touch with.

Colour has a huge part to play in evoking a visceral reaction, an astronomical amount of humans go about their lives absorbing colour information, but not thinking about what it actually means. The painting above for example, such a limited palette, green - yet you can taste the mist, the fresh damp air, you can smell the trees, hear the waterfall, feel the wet bark under your feet - but it's just a simple painting with one colour, green.