Sustainable
diary loves speaks about food and food culture, so when we watched
the pictures of Tsuyoshi Ozawa on Inhabitat we thought: "This is
a good story for start the week".
The
artist was born in 1965, Tokyo. In 2001, he began “VegetableWeapon”, a series of photographic portraits of young women holding
weapons made from vegetable.
He
realized this photo project in different countries around Asia,
America, Europe, and Africa. He finds a woman that live in the place
and asks her to gather vegetables and other ingredients needed to
make an indigenous hot-pot dish. After the food is creatively
arranged in the shape of a firearms, he starts shooting the absurd
war-like portraits.
Once
the photograph is made, Ozawa and his model disassemble the delicious
weapon, cook the ingredients, and share a meal together. Vegetable
Weapons shows how humor and art enable us to talk about delicate
subjects like war, food culture and power.
"Drawing
on the dynamics of everyday life and human interactions, Ozawa
combines real-life incidents, situations and materials to create
works which draw attention to ideas and issues central to social and
political life.
[...]
He intends these processes to create an opportunity for discussion of
issues such as conflict, war and injustice using the construction of
an art work as the catalyst for dialogue."
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Tsuyoshi Ozawa
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