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December 3, 2020
Grace Ebert
Japanese artist Yasuhiro Suzuki lengthy has puzzled about what lies beneath the floor of Tokyo’s Sumida River, a query he’s symbolically remedied with a modern vessel that unzips the center of the waterway. Suzuki’s “Zip-Fastener Ship” mimics the ever-present closures because it separates the central river with a wake that splays out similar to the teeth-lined tape.
Accomplished in 2004, the silver vessel grew out of an thought Suzuki had in 2002 after he watched a ship glide down the waterway whereas flying overhead. “The undertow of the boat, which travels backwards and forwards between Azuma-bashi Bridge and Sakura-bashi Bridge, opened up the water like a zipper to attach the opposite aspect of the river,” he says. “(I hoped) that it could change the way in which we have a look at town panorama.”
Suzuki started an annual launch on the Sumida in 2018 and plans to shift his focus to the water’s molecules in a future iteration, which you’ll comply with on Instagram. (through Laughing Squid)
#boats
#Tokyo
#water
#zippers
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