Section 00. "Squatter"
In ’Gypsies’, photographed by Josef Koodelka.
The images captured there is characterized by displacement and alienation which was a defining reality of his own existence, the very essence of those images echoes my identity and my experience of being in a caravan with various families when I was 16 years old, having been taken out of my dormitory and having nowhere to go.
There are several photographs of funerals in the book and there was always a coin on their eyelids. I was curious and asked the Gypsy family about it. They explained it as a payment or bribe for the ferryman who conveyed souls across the river that divided the world of the living from the world of the dead, a practice that had precedents in ancient Egypt. They also taught us to burn the whole caravan with it.
This silver coin and leather are crafted with the individual handwork of the artisan.
The drawing of sheep is drawn by Nell SHIINA and it is based on his old reminiscence in England.
Also "Drip Trinity Ring" is shaped in reference to the old memory of faffing around in reminiscence by the lake.
Entwined rings are allegories of time, movement and vacuity.
It embodies interpenetration in contrast and conflict.
"Sculpture Ring" is shaped in reference to the dry lacquer sculptures of the brand designer and artist H. Nell SHIINA. Furthermore, it is coated baking finish with urushi lacquer by his hand.
The works are an inquiry concerning an anatomy and a philosophy with a skeptical approach, he deals with radical themes such as the essence of things and human existence, while also expressing the relationships between things that can be inferred from a self-referential aspect.
*Project *Photography
H. Nell SHIINA Rin NAGAMOTO
*Models *Makeup
Kaz. Natsumi YAMAMOTO
Sena NAKAHARA
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