Snow Dumping Sites 2022
Areas having much snow, the snow accumulates around houses. These things generate many kinds of feelings for the residents there.
That is why we must remove snow to somewhere like riversides or vacant lots. Those are called “snow dumping sites” or “snow removal sites”.
Companies with snow removal equipment offer to provide services to remove it. The machine put the snow into dump trucks and transport it to the sites. The piles of snow grows like a propagation and creates white, grey and black mounds.
Those suddenly appear in winter and gradually disappear in spring.
Lines 2024
I have been taking photographs of the tatami mat which is a traditional floor of Japan. Tatami mat craftsmen wrap and make it with the carpet-formed tatami by weaving straw and rush. Due to the characteristic of the material, life pattern of the residents is recorded on the surface.
It seems like as if the surface of the earth gradually has changed by the human activities.
Note: The text above was written by the Artist. No modification was made by COCA.
Hiroshi Kawazumi
Japan
https://chuka1999.wixsite.com/hiroshikawazumi
Born in Sapporo, Hokkaido, JAPAN
Lives & works in Ebetsu city, JAPAN
Education
1995 – 2000 Tokyo College of Photography,Japan. Photography Course
Solo Exhibitions
2000 – Tatami Landscaping. The art space Rashinban, Shinbashi, Tokyo, Japan
2010 – Lines. NHK Heart Plaza Gallery, Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan
Group Exhibitions
1999 – Tokyo College of Photography Group Exhibition. Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
2009 – Independence. Higashikawa Bunka Gallery, Hokkaido, Japan
2015 – Dream Art. Dali Museum, Berlin, Germany
2015 – Perspective of Receptivity. The Palace of the Tourism Art and Hotel Architecture, Riccione, Italy
2016 – ITALO. Le Dame Art Gallery, London, UK
2017 – PREMIO COMBAT PRIZE 2017 finalist exhibition. Museo Civico G. Fattori, ex Granai di Villa Mimbelli, Livorno, Italy
2017 – Contemporary Collected. Rosso Cinabro, Rome, Italy
2018 – Ars Ventis : Festival Itinerante d'Art. San Vittore del Lazio, Italy