Video: Love is like a vacuum in the works of the Japanese photographer Hal
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Every person on Earth can give their own definition of the word "love". For example, a Japanese photo artist Hal sure that love is a vacuum … In any case, in this aspect, he considers it in his series of works with the title Flesh love.
Anyone who has visited sites with "strawberries" must have seen this type of deviation. A person is placed under a dense film, a breathing device is given to him, and then air is pumped out from under the film. It is believed that in this state, a person receives the most amazing sensations that are inaccessible in ordinary life.
Photo artist Hal from Tokyo uses a similar principle to create his works. But he uses transparent film, and places under it not one person, but a couple. Moreover, a couple in love.
In this way, Hal demonstrates his idea of the essence of love. In his understanding, when people in love are strongly drawn to each other, then after a while they become so close that they turn into a single being in a vacuum package, which does not need and does not care about any external circumstances.
Wanting to create his next photographic work from the Flesh Love cycle (Flesh of Love), Hal goes to one of the bars in Tokyo's Shibuya district and looks around, trying to spy out a couple in love. Moreover, neither age, nor gender, nor sexual orientation, nor the social status of his future models are important to him. In Hal's works you can see musicians, strippers, unemployed, blue-collar workers, managers, salespeople, photographers, businessmen. After all, all ages and all professions are submissive to love!
Having spotted suitable people, Hal approaches them, introduces himself and offers to become his co-authors. Someone refuses, but someone gladly agrees to participate in the creation of new works from the Flesh Love series. Moreover, as the author says, there are much more of the latter in percentage terms than the former. Japan after all!
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