with a zipper boat of course!
unveiled
as part of the Designart Tokyo 2020 event, the zipper puller boat – officially
known as ‘Zipper Fastener Ship’ – is the brain child of Japanese designer
Yasuhiro Suzuki, all photographs sumiyume.jp,
He was
looking down from the window of an airplane and saw a ship sailing through
Tokyo Bay; the movement of the water as the boat passed created the illusion of
a zipper splitting the water, just like one opens a jacket, so he decided to
create a literal representation of this illusion,
“If you
look at the gently flowing Sumida River, you can see the swaying water that
changes its shape due to the splash of waves that the ship has set up on the
sparkling water surface that reflects the sky. As the ‘Fastener Ship’
sails, we will bring out and convey the various expressions of water that lurks
around us,” the artistic event page reads,
the
motorized zipper boat measures 9 meters in length and consists of a chrome-coloured body, bridge, and a puller that completes the zipper look. It was the centrepiece of an artistic installation titled “Opening the River”, which saw
the boat travel between Azumabashi and Sakurabashi, on the Sumida River, from
Oct. 31 to Nov. 8, Suzuki
first made a scale model of the zipper boat some time ago, and here is the full size one as
part of Designart 2020, what a neat looking boat.
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