Video: Destructive art project War against Christmas by Alan Sailer
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Oddly enough, but among people who wholeheartedly love Christmas and New Year's holidays, they adore decorating the Christmas tree, choosing and wrapping gifts, and chanting "Happy New Year" when the clock strikes midnight on December 31, their absolute antipodes are found. They hate the holidays in general and Christmas in particular, they hate the pre-holiday bustle, and they get an allergy attack from champagne and tangerines. Does the photographer belong to these people? Alan Sailer, one cannot say for sure. But his destructive art project War against christmas eloquent enough …
The photographer has declared war on the New Year holidays. Being a talented master of high-speed photography, he repeatedly pressed the shutter button of the camera at the moment when the bullet at high speed pierced the Christmas tree decorations, filled with various fillings for entertainment. With the naked eye, we cannot see what is happening at this very moment, but when a professional is in the hands of a camera with a 1 microsecond response step, nothing is impossible.
Christmas decorations in the form of snowmen and snow maidens, deer and Santa Clauses, balls and stars, as well as other glass or plastic decorations, which are usually hung on thorny branches decorated with a serpentine, scatter into small fragments, turning into fireworks of colorful splashes. Why is the approach of the holiday even more clearly felt, carnivals and masquerades, as well as children's matinees with bright costumes and colorful gifts, come to mind. For each Christmas tree toy, Alan Sayler selects just such a filling and a background of the appropriate color so that the War against Christmas art project looks not at all bloodthirsty, but, on the contrary, a bewitching, amazing, unforgettable sight.
In his photographs, Alan Sayler explores the aesthetics of destruction, demonstrating how colorful and fantastic the last seconds of the "life" of a wide variety of objects can be. Thus, destroying one thing, turning the whole into thousands of fragments and splashes, which scatter around like a fountain, he creates something else. This other cannot be touched, but can be seen, imagined and felt. More examples of high-speed shooting by Alan Sailer, as well as the continuation of the War against Christmas series, can be found on the photographer's website.
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