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Sky-Drawing. The electrical-wires-feti - teruhisa tahara

Sky-Drawing. The electrical-wires-feti (teruhisa tahara) - beyondmemory
Photography Urban landscape / Architecture Digital (teruhisa tahara - Tokyo Japan)

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Sky-Drawing. The electrical-wires-feti

Photography, Urban landscape / Architecture, Digital, 40x50cm, 2012
Some foreigners suggest that there are a lot of electrical-wires in Japanese skies, just like a spider’s web. To be sure, electrical wires in almost all large Japanese cities don’t go underground, differing from other large cities such as Paris, London, and New York. This is a specific feature of Japanese urban scenery. Japan has great difficulty in placing its electrical wires underground, due to its financial problems, but also due to the demerits of installation underground.
Some Japanese people are critical of the approach of placing wires underground in case of emergency situations, upheaval damages from disasters such as a great earthquake would cause in a city like Tokyo.
Some Japanese people say that the electrical wires would ruin the beautiful scenery, but on the contrary many other people who share the fascination for wires and their specific beauty, cannot agree.
Electrical wires can symbolize the excessive information technology we have on earth, and act as a metaphor for the new path [BUDDISM=ZEN] of the 21th century in collaboration with everything in the present all over the world, beyond the differences between continents, languages, the bride, the culture, the genders, the faith of CHRISTIANITY, which has ruled daily life in the western world in the 20th century as the human being is at the center of everything in the world.

Comments (4)

Geoff Dunlop
8 months ago
Geoff Dunlop Artist
Super. Provoking us to look again - and rethink what we see
Corrado Lippi
1 year ago
To the knowledge of Japanese culture that I have, very strict and schematic, I'm happily surprised by his imagination. Art is imagination pure and total freedom.
Waldemar Dabrowski
1 year ago
Good...!
catherine burg
1 year ago
Original !
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teruhisa tahara
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Tokyo, Japan - 1958
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