Video: X-ray gifts. X-rays of Christmas presents by Hugh Turvey
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Christmas (and in our latitudes - New Year's) gifts for people are always a surprise, always desired, but forbidden, for the time being, fruit. But children, the most impatient creatures, are extremely curious to know what awaits them under the tree, right here and right now. British artist Hugh Turvey, already known to us by his X-ray project, for which he illuminated flowers and other plants with rays, in the same way looked into the packages with gifts. The project was named X-rays of Christmas presents … The method that Hugh Turvey uses is a cross between X-ray and photography. Probably, this is how luggage at the airport shines through, but in the case of X-rays of Christmas presents, this peeping and shining through carries artistic value. Well, and a small reminder that everything secret will certainly become apparent. With time.
In the project X-rays of Christmas presents, the artist showed that gifts, for the most part, are predictable and typical. And in some cases, even anecdotal. Take socks and slippers, lovingly packed in beautiful boxes with bows. Or a purely gentleman's set in the form of two representative pens and branded packaging with a watch. As a rule, girls are presented with jewelry, perfumes, cosmetics, sometimes - soft toys and symbolic accessories that once again speak of love. And for children - toys, small appliances and similar gifts.
If each of us possessed such X-ray vision, then on the one hand, that magical charm of waiting, unwrapping a gift, undoing ribbons and laces would be destroyed. I took a look - and I already know that this year a set of dishes, a cosmetic bag and a bracelet have been prepared for you. Or a teddy bear, a box of chocolates, and a new hair dryer. Boring? That's the same. So is it worth depriving yourself of the pleasure of receiving a real surprise as a gift?
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