The core of my work post-COVID consists of a series of 300+ paired photographs. The significant restrictions on movement meant that automobiles had been deprived of their function. These vehicles, unable to move, became symbolic of our particular Stay Home order, and I began to see other aspects to them—summing up the whole of our lives. I have begun to pair these images of automobiles with those from my neighborhood “nature”; plant life, as a result of gardening. Is the future that this series shows a hopeful light or that of a collapsing life style? Where would you like to drive?
My name is Daisuke Hasegawa, but I go by DYSK for my practice. I chose this name for myself as I wanted to escape the constraints gender, sex and nationality, while still being easy enough to pronounce for others. I was born in Osaka, Japan. I turned to my practice of photography and spent 10 years in the West (Canada, France, England), where I briefly attended Parsons School of Design in Paris. Wanting to explore my heritage, I returned to Japan. My career in commercial photography developed in Tokyo, while I continued to explore the themes of existence and absence in my personal work.
