In artist Suzuki's world, lakes unzip and leaves wink at you as they fall...

Boat shaped like a zipper (still here) makes its
wake the zippers teeth as it moves

The artist with his Arial Beings

Yasuhiro Suzuki, a 32 year old artist re-envisions mundane objects and experiences into something both fresh and fantastic.  His work connects immediately an emotional basis and at the same time is thought provoking as he explores the boundaries between the animate and the inanimate.  

Arial Beings drift over travelers  in an air-themed
 installation at Heneda Airport

Suzuki creates a magical world where falling leaves blink at you, zippers unzip lakes and cabbages lend you their leaves to use as bowls as his Arial Beings are freed from gravity to float along unseen movements of air on their own accord.

Suzuki has new book out, 'Blinking and Flapping' covering some of his recent works, that is available for international shipping through Amazon Japan.

Each of the leaves peels off to make an individual bowl 

Zipper Boat from a distance

'Blinking and Flapping' focus is on the pieces shown at a major retrospective of his work that took place late last year at the Hamamatsu Museum of Art. Indeed, the body of water shown being "unzipped" is Lake Hamamatsu.

The zip measures 26 x 56 x 170cm, and is most effective seen from some distance and speed, where the widening wake from the boat creates the sense of the water being unzipped.

Standing under Blinking and Flapping

The falling leaves are printed with an open eye on one side and
a closed on the other, so they blink as they flutter around you