honorable mention
Haruka Fujita japan
title
A bubble
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entry description
Unlike the impression commonly held for colorful and adorable soap bubbles that children play with, their state just before breaking is very mysterious. It becomes an ultra-thin film and if you touch it with your hand, it is so ephemeral that our hand will become only slightly damp. On the other hand, the visions of bubbles breaking while changing their vivid colors and patterns are also brilliant and dynamic. Looking at soap bubbles, which seem to be hovering around the boundaries between existence and non-existence, gives us an opportunity to think about our own existence. Through shooting this series, I became fascinated by contradiction created by fragility and dynamism of soap bubbles, and was able to rediscover the extraordinary beauty of an ordinary thing.about the photographer
With light as one of the main themes and by applying the theory of optics, she breaks preconceptions and explores the possibility of reconstructing a realistic visual experience by fusing different fields of art and science. With interests in phenomena that are ordinary but overlooked like soap bubbles, and things that are invisible but exist for sure in everyday life, she reconsiders the world around us by using expressive media such as photographs, sculptures, installations, and movies. Furthermore, she presents a new perspective in her works with contradictory elements such as light and darkness, natural and artificial, color and colorless, blended in a mesmerizing manner.back to gallery