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Atsushi Fukui (Japanese, b. 1966)

Nahal’s Bell 06, 2013

Quick picture I took of the front cover diorama during the photo shoot with Rob Walters. A very long time friend who got recruited for his photography expertise, without which this entire project would not have worked out at all.

I built two individual structures, one for the front and one for the back (front cover heading into the singularity, and back cover emerging out of it). Figures are falling downwards on the front cover and upwards on the back.

Both were constructed on a spiral wire structure. Black thread is woven throughout to make a web, onto which I hot glued all of the paper figures. For the final design, I Photoshopped out the wire/thread structure so the figures would float.

The backdrop is the same approach as Lifted. Kids’ finger paints from the craft store. The major difference here was Rob. Because of his skill level as a college photography professor (and access to an insane Hasselblad digital camera) the amount of background detail he was able to tease out an otherwise pitch black background was shocking.