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Hideyuki Ishibashi
Connotations

Inspired by a poem by American poet Win Harms, which is based on her personal experiences with men, Ishibashi started tweaking found images and replaced them with what he calls an ‘average’ image entirely. “From the first moment I read her poem, the image of the man portrayed in it became very vivid,” says Ishibashi. “Our collaboration for Connotations was to turn images into artwork to be consumed in the mass media by means of her personal language.”

Yoshinori Mizutani
Tokyo Parrots

When I saw hundreds of parakeets swarming the sky, I was struck by fear. I felt …