Our paths lead us to a lagoon that emanates a mysterious light in the middle of the desert.

The desert heat was already fading, and a cold wind was blowing sand into our eyes.

We hear the sounds of a wild animal screaming and moving across the sand into the darkness.

With every step, the silence and darkness of the night pushed us towards that light.

In the sky, a galaxy above us lit up the desert with your 30 billion stars.

And there we were.

Mesmerized by the green light, pulsing in sync with the beat of my heart.

Dreams

The Decagon is the infinitely evolving, always unique, and eternally open membership token of the Decaverse. Designed by Kjetil Golid.

Decagon #25488

July 2012 - Everything has a beginning  


Starman

I close my eyes, breathe and feel the warm wind blowing through the darkness. 

I hear the small creatures wandering in the night. 

And sometimes the sound of some unknown animal yelling somewhere in the valley. 

This is my secret place of contemplation. 

Here I'm taken by a sense of peace I cannot explain. 

And in the mid of the night, the darkness is interrupted by a majestic moonrise. 

Golden light fills the valleys and the small sounds of the night begin to change, influenced by the moonlight. 

Suddenly I can hear owls and a few dogs howling to the Moon in the background. 

A cold wind starts to blow in my face. 

Peace.

Collaboration with Raffa Gomes - Sound artist.

Moonrise Kingdom

RED by artist Ricardo Takamura presents us with a photographic series that propose a contemporary dialogue about the human presence and its influence on the natural landscape.

Takamura use the power of the red color in his nocturnal images: color as presence; as a passage; as a mutation; an alert like a hurt; as an emanation of a solitude of a traveler on a distant, devastated planet.

On the other hand, the night sky presents us with the cosmos and it makes us reflect on our origin, possibilities, permanence, our artificiality, daydreams, fictional and factual nuances.

In these conflicts the artist emerges on a character of vertical looks, aware that it inhabits retransformed landscapes.

The interlocutor can see that Ricardo Takamura has several points of contact that in a moment before they seemed scattered. It is in this critical and transformative engagement that a trajectory hitting ourselves.

Artist: Ricardo Takamura
Year: 2017
Size: 7360x4912
NFT edition: 1/1

Red collection - Trapped

A cold wind touches my face.

I'm walking immersed in the dark. Under my feet, a thin film of water. I can hear my wet steps breaking the silence.

I look up at the sky. Stars are shining while the last clouds of a storm that just passed disappear on the horizon.

Now I can see the stars mirrored on the water, making me feel like I was in an upside-down world. 

On my horizon, a mountain. I heard about a tunnel going under it.

I start to walk towards the mountain while a greenish glow begins to take over the sky. In a few minutes, pillars of colorful lights take all the sky and the ground.

I close my eyes and breathe. I lose myself in this infinity of lights as if spirits came out from behind the mountain and danced in the sky, just waiting for me.

I'm looking for that tunnel...

Spirited Away

Towards the light, where the door shall rise.  
Heavens beckon, as she unlocks the skies.

Year: 2023  
Size: 3750x5000

Knockin' on heaven's door

The Moon and the Milky Way, the golden light of the moonlight illuminates the forests with their golden light as it rises over the horizon, in a dance of light and darkness that repeats every month.

Moonrise

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Fantastic worlds by Ricardo Takamura

Two galaxies dance across the night sky, the Magellanic Clouds with their 30 billion stars. Meanwhile an Araucaria tree sleeps peacefully into the night while a meteor from the Perseid meteor shower crosses the sky from end to end.

Billion Stars

Vastness of the Universe is a poetic collection about Brazilian nightscapes. An invitation to reflect on our importance in this immense cosmic arena called the Universe.

Vastness of the universe V2

Amidst the darkness of a starry night, I found an ancient wonder lit only by the pale light of the stars. 

In the dark, I heard wild horses running around me, and my heart beat faster. Isolated on an island in the middle of the pacific ocean, I listened to a lone plane crossing the sky.

A few minutes later, the moon starts to rise on the horizon, and I can see the green meadows shimmering lit by the moonlight. I could now see the majestic Moais, silent guardians of eternity. 

Close my eyes in contemplation and respect. These sentinels stand tall and serene, protecting the ancient spirits that inhabit the island.

I was taken to Easter Island through a photography award. My Across the Universe photograph won first place in an international competition, and the prize was a trip to the island.

They let me choose the travel date, and I plan to be there at the exact moment to wait for the moon to rise behind the statues. This was my first destination exclusively to photograph, and that's when I started getting obsessed with planning.

Everything has a beginning, and 2017 was when I left everything I did before and started dedicating myself exclusively to photography.

Guardians

About friendships and lives intersecting.

Along my path, I came across several people who supported my journey and pushed me forward.

I arrived at this place guided by a friend, accompanied by a few others who helped me the most on my journey through photography.

Cars passed along the highway from time to time at high speed, and the composition required me to stay in the middle of the road for an endless 30 seconds. 

Intersections and trust, while two friends looked at the road to warn me of an approaching vehicle, I was in the middle of the road looking for the perfect composition.

I waited for the Milky Way to be in a perfect position, one line crossing the other, in honor of all the people who have passed through my life until then.

I heard the sound of a train passing over the bridge, and a car coming over the horizon lit the bridge. 

I had less than 30 seconds to get the perfect shot.

Bifrost

Ricardo Takamura Editions

RED by artist Ricardo Takamura presents us with a photographic series that proposes a contemporary dialogue about the human presence and its influence on the natural landscape.

Takamura uses the power of the red color in his nocturnal images: color as presence; as a passage; as a mutation; an alert like a hurt; as an emanation of the solitude of a traveler on a distant, devastated planet.

On the other hand, the night sky presents us with the cosmos and it makes us reflect on our origin, possibilities, permanence, our artificiality, daydreams, and fictional and factual nuances.

In these conflicts, the artist emerges on a character of vertical looks, aware that it inhabits retransformed landscapes.

The interlocutor can see that Ricardo Takamura has several points of contact that a moment before seemed scattered. It is in this critical and transformative engagement that a trajectory hits ourselves.

Artist: Ricardo Takamura
Year: 2019
Size: 7360x4912
NFT edition: 1/1

Red collection - Vessel

RED by artist Ricardo Takamura presents us with a photographic series that proposes a contemporary dialogue about the human presence and its influence on the natural landscape.

Takamura uses the power of the red color in his nocturnal images: color as presence; as a passage; as a mutation; an alert like a hurt; as an emanation of the solitude of a traveler on a distant, devastated planet.

On the other hand, the night sky presents us with the cosmos and it makes us reflect on our origin, possibilities, permanence, our artificiality, daydreams, and fictional and factual nuances.

In these conflicts, the artist emerges on a character of vertical looks, aware that it inhabits retransformed landscapes.

The interlocutor can see that Ricardo Takamura has several points of contact that a moment before seemed scattered. It is in this critical and transformative engagement that a trajectory hits ourselves.

RED by artist Ricardo Takamura presents us with a photographic series that proposes a contemporary dialogue about the human presence and its influence on the natural landscape.

Takamura uses the power of the red color in his nocturnal images: color as presence; as a passage; as a mutation; an alert like a hurt; as an emanation of the solitude of a traveler on a distant, devastated planet.

On the other hand, the night sky presents us with the cosmos and it makes us reflect on our origin, possibilities, permanence, our artificiality, daydreams, and fictional and factual nuances.

In these conflicts, the artist emerges on a character of vertical looks, aware that it inhabits retransformed landscapes.

The interlocutor can see that Ricardo Takamura has several points of contact that a moment before seemed scattered. It is in this critical and transformative engagement that a trajectory hits ourselves.

Artist: Ricardo Takamura
Year: 2017
Size: 7360x4912
NFT edition: 1/1


Fades away

Red by Ricardo Takamura

1974 tells a story about the last trip of an old VW bus through the universe and the time. Inspired by your owner’s passionate relationship with this van that began in your childhood when he heard stories told by his grandfather about an adventure he made crossing the entire American continent from north to south aboard a van just like this one.

Year: 2016
Size: 7360x4912
NFT edition: 1/1

Lonely Star

1974 tells a story about the last trip of an old VW bus through the universe and the time. Inspired by your owner’s passionate relationship with this van that began in your childhood when he heard stories told by his grandfather about an adventure he made crossing the entire American continent from north to south aboard a van just like this one.

1974 - The Adventures Begin

1974

Red collection - Fades away

My collection RED propose a contemporary dialogue about the human presence and its influence on the natural landscape.

Red collection - Cosmos

"Silent Night" was created after a gap of one year without creating anything. In 2012 I became partially blind in my left eye, and for a long time I had great difficulty to adapt me to this new condition. 

One year after I became partially blind, i had a moment of contemplation.

I arrived at this place in the end of day of a summer afternoon. A warm wind was blowing, could hear the last sounds of birds going to rest, sounds of infinite small nocturnal animals starting to wake up filled my head.

I breathed, closed my eyes, and felt alive like never before. 

Title: Silent Night  
Artist: Ricardo Takamura  
Year: 2013

Silent Night

SuperRare

The Atacama Desert is one of the most incredible places in the world, the landscape changes in a matter of kilometers, like thousands of worlds in just one place. A salty river flows through the desert, creating an extraterrestrial scene with its blooming crystal formations and turquoise lagoons.

Year: 2019
Size: 7360x4912
Edition size: 1



Salt River

Heartbeat is part of the daydreams series. Inspired on cinematographic fiction and staged photography, I transform reality into imaginary worlds. 

Heartbeat was shot in the Atacama Desert. It was an exhaustive search for scenarios that refer to sci-fi films.

Heartbeat

Foundation

Shared dreams in an endless field of roses. Thousands of broken pieces collapse into 100 unique vortex dreams.

Vortex Dream #4

Vortex Dream #3

Vortex Dreams

We heard about an abandoned city in the middle of the desert, and we went in search of it, when we found it we crossed the whole town and entered an abandoned house a little away from the city.

#200tezos

The first house

The City at the End of the Universe

This is the logo I use in exhibition spaces

to infinity with Ricardo Takamura

Infinite

Our last hope abandoned, life has become a distant dream

 Signals

About our finitude as human beings and the loneliness of knowing that one day we will cease to exist.

Without rain, the water becomes poisonous and scarce, few clouds hang in the sky.

Barren land

A Journey to the End of the Universe

Unexplained light phenomena around the world

Frequency of light #2

Frequency of light #1

Ricardo Takamura Frequency of Light

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Shared dreams in an endless field of roses.

Vortex Dreams #917

Vortex Dreams #385

June is going to be a special month for me, and to celebrate the coming days I settled an auction of a piece from my Vortex Dreams collection with a zero reserve price 


Vortex Dreams #6

Frequency of light #2 is now on SuperRare

An amazing collab with the brazilian artist @RaffaGomes

Visages

The fourth UFO sighting card has been made by me, inspired by my old UFO magazines.

👽🛸✨ First Wave by @ricardotakamura

✨ 777 pieces
✨ Price 0 ETH

First Wave

This is the first piece in my Intersections collection, which tells stories about encounters with mysterious lights. This is a very important collection for me, and I decided to start to mint it on my birthday, August 2nd.

Intersections - 2018, São Luiz do Paraitinga - Brazil

My new SuperRare piece, "The long and winding road" is open for offers until July 12, after that is going to auction with 7 $ETH reserve.

I decided to mint this piece today because this day could go down in NFT history, when everyone is saying that they are going to zero, I deposited my vote of confidence in the future here.

The long and winding road

Frequency of Light is the first piece in a series inspired by the Squiggles, that was made through a single photograph, using an $8 flashlight to paint the Squiggle, and another flashlight to lit the trees.

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