Van O

      The series «Red lunch» has arisen as dedication to the romance "Naked lunch" by William S. Burroughs and also includes analog photos and digital collages on their basis. The primary push has been given at water-melon purchase in fine hot August day when the enormous quantity of the wasps who have gathered seriously to compete for possession by these fine fruits has started to frighten off buyers. In a pointed manner cut water-melons and all the system of their street sale with the trellised cages twined artificial garlands and closely hammered water-melons with wasps teeming on them sending to "Metropolis" by F.Lang and “La Grand Bouffe” by М.Ferrary represented remarkable multilevel structure of the consumption. The competition for carbohydrates between consumers of so various weight and food strategy has pushed to the game in scales resulted still in «Gulliver's Adventures» - to the conflict between the little man and the big wasps. The invoice of water-melons with their complementary colors-external camouflage green and predatory internal red-in interaction with warning black-yellow strips of wasps has led to modeling of a certain micropolis-laboratory with the power interchange system and schemes of movings. This series includes 38 photos and can be presented as in traditional hanging or can be placed on vertical extensions in a trellised cage for melon and gourds sale together with some quantity of water-melons.

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