photos courtesy mitsubishi chemical junior designer award and the artists
What should have been warm, fuzzy photos of couples are drastically transformed into stark, rather eerie portraits by Saiko Kanda and Mayuka Hayashi. Using an actual CT scan and x-ray machine, the students artists photographed 4 couples, removing the everyday information that we typically perceive. But surprisingly what is revealed is something more than what we would see in a doctor’s office.
“X-ray images usually show the finite nature of our bodies composed only of matter,” say the duo. “But these couples portraits reveal a pulse that isn’t normally seen.” Romantic? No. Intimate? Absolutely.
Kanda and Hayashi conceived the body of work for their senior thesis exhibition at Musashino Art University. They went on to win a prize in the recent Mitsubishi Chemical Junior Designer Award.
[correction] an earlier version of this post mistakenly reported the artist’s name as Ayako Kanda. The correct name is Saiko Kanda.
November 30, 2013 at 1:08 pm
A very stirring project. I like it.
December 1, 2013 at 9:55 pm
Beautiful pics. I think it shows the true nature of being close.
December 3, 2013 at 4:38 pm
Does anyone know if prints of these can be purchased?
December 4, 2013 at 4:51 am
Very cool! Reminds me of the skeleton pin ups by EIZO:
http://www.hirnverbrandt.de/3422/skelett-pin-ups/
December 9, 2013 at 9:05 pm
Hello,
Im wondering if anyone knows if we can purchase these photo’s or copies of them somehow?
December 10, 2013 at 1:49 pm
Allez aux hôpitaux pour examiner cancer régulièrement, y compris
le cancer du côlon , le cancer du sein ,
le cancer de la prostate , cancer de l’utérus et le cancer de la peau
. Aion l’or est la monnaie du jeu qui est requis par les joueurs
à acheter des navires , des implants, ainsi que , de nouveaux personnages et des services à d’autres joueurs
. Cependant , les gens peuvent dire qu’ils envoient souvent des roses
dans des jours communs et il est préférable de choisir d’autres fleurs dans le jour de Noël .
December 12, 2013 at 12:00 pm
I know everyone’s going “aww, how cute, I want a print!”, but all I can think about?
Some of those are crazy awkward ways to sleep, man. I wasn’t aware couples regularly slept on top of one another, curled on separate vertical parts of the bed, or on each other’s feet.
December 15, 2013 at 10:45 pm
Kaitlin- It doesn’t say anywhere that they are supposed to be of couples sleeping. They are just portraits.
December 16, 2013 at 3:23 pm
Cute, until you realize how many of them have big gas bubbles sitting in their rectums. Unborn farts. The partner is about to get a surprise.