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YOSHIMITSU UMEKAWA “DRIP BOMB

Yoshimitsu Umekawa “DRIP BOMB” Photo book
Label:ERECT Lab.
Release date: December 1, 2012
Title: “DRIP BOMB
Author:Yoshimitsu Umekawa
Specifications:A4 W hardcover

Number of pages:40

This is a series of reportage and vomit series shot from 2002 to 2012, which attempts to reflect the idea of “organization” that modern society faces, mainly in the middle of the night in contemporary Tokyo, Japan, through actual vomit and diarrhea. The impression one gets from the vomit on the street, which is also drunkenness, intoxication, and oblivion, is that of a strong ego (cogito), and the village consciousness peculiar to the Japanese people is already gone. They were independent, individual, cursed beings, very existentialist, and looked wonderfully beautiful. The essence of vomit is no longer vomit, but existence changes, and if we continue to doubt, the image will continue to change. The relationship between vomit, existence (existenz), ego (cogito), and forgetfulness. Existentialist photography.

Comments on recommendation

I totally agree with you. Japan is all about vomit, isn’t it?”
Makoto Aida (artist)

“Cleaning duty, time to boast about your perversions, landlady! Tonight it’s Ume-chan’s turn…”
What a psychedelic! It’s like 2001: A Space Odyssey!
NIPPS (rapper)

NIPPS (Rapper) Chewing of the Soul. Gastrointestinal medicine please.”
Tomoo Gokita (Painter)

Tomoo Gokita (Painter) “The Drop (ruby: art) being created nightly in Tokyo is so real and dramatic. And it’s still beautiful.”
Chim↑Pom (Contemporary artist)

“I realized that vomit on the street is a nebula on the street. I wonder what dimensional space is inside the human body that creates the nebula.”
Kyohei Sakaguchi (artist, first prime minister of the new government)

“It’s nauseatingly romantic, man. !!!!!!!”
DRIP BOMB,” the largest human-powered bomb of the postwar era, back-flushed down the esophagus and blasted onto the sidewalk, is a coarse-ground, drippy, undigested graffiti that was drunkenly detonated at the command of the stomach and small intestine. !!!!!!!!!
If we consider “DRIP BOMB”, which emits a strange odor, as “food photos” on the verge of digestion, we can consider it as “high school girls’ blog mixed with stomach acid”, and if we read this act of photography as “observation on the street”, we can consider it as a “blog of high school girls’ blog mixed with stomach acid”. If you read it as “street observation,” you can recognize it as a “super art thomason with a strange smell” that downconverts the concept of Genpei Akasegawa: !!!!!!!! VOMIT!!!!!!!!! THROW UP!!!!!! Read before you eat!!!!!!!!
Naohiro Ukawa aka Kunie Tanaka (President of DOMMUNE)

We like to eat shrimps, but grasshoppers with their exoskeletons are just as disgusting,
But grasshoppers, which are exoskeletons in the same way, are so disgusting that we don’t even want to eat them.
The same goes for vomit.
When I saw one on the platform of a train station near the end of the line, I was terrified,
But if you look closely at the “shape,” it looks like a nebula,
It looks like a nebula or a tropical coral reef.
You are definitely missing out on something.
A three-star full-course meal costing a total of 50,000 yen would be excrement.
But it is understandable if you think of it as the residue of nourishment and nutrients taken into your body,
But what is that sense of impermanence when you vomit it out of the blue?
It is a trace of the three stars dyed in your color, but it is shunned and hated,
It is a symbol of self-loathing and shame.
I think it is a symbol of self-loathing and shame.”
Reiko Yuyama, author and director

“The vomit and diarrhea one encounters unexpectedly in the downtown area at night seems like malice from a stranger, though it is unpleasant,
But through Umechan’s lens, they seem somehow warm and friendly! Gero is everyone’s friend!
Masaya Nakahara (musician, painter, writer)