The work series are the collaboration with Valeria Roxana Primost who is an Argentinian contemporary dancer. Her arm is covered with dried seaweeds which are known as “nori”, an ingredient in Japanese cooking. Nori is a kind of green algae which perform photosynthesis. A researcher at a fisheries experiment station told me that you may have possibilities to be the Photosynthesizers if green algae could live in the outer layer of your skin and transfer from old skin cell to new cell as the skin changes. The photographs above were taken at Akiyoshidai plateau. The arm of mortar on the black pedestal (photo below) is moulded from Primost’s own right arm.

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