Video: The Transparent Life of Dead Animals by Iori Tomita
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Death is not always synonymous with the end. For some, death can be a new beginning. For example, for rock stars who died early or for small animals that fell into the hands of a Japanese artist after death Iori Tomitamaking unusual works of art out of them.
People have always wanted to know what animals look like inside. Some have even turned their pursuit of this knowledge into work (biologists) or art. Among the latter, you can remember the author of transparent origami with an ecological hint Takayuki Hori or the employees of EIZO, who created the unerotic wall calendar Pin-up Calendar 2010.
So the Japanese Yori Tomite from early childhood was interested in the internal structure of all sorts of various animals. For this, he then dissected them. Now Tomite has learned to examine the subcutaneous world of animals without opening them. And this hobby, which he called "Shinsekai Toumei Hyouhon" ("New world in transparent samples"), he turned into a real art.
At the beginning of work on the next exhibit of his collection, Yori Tomite finds a freshly dead animal of small size. Then he cleans it from the skin and soaks it in special liquids that destroy the structure of the protein, but do not destroy the cells themselves. This allows you to leave soft tissue and still make it completely transparent. After that, Tomite lowers the formed "material" into a liquid mixture, which leaves its marks only on bones, cornea and cartilage.
This is how these unusual anatomical works by Yori Tomite turn out, about which he himself says the following: “People can look at my exhibits as scientific material, as a work of art, or even as something philosophical. I don't care how they interpret their meaning. But I hope that each of the viewers will find in my works something new for themselves, something interesting, something that he has never seen before."
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