Ulysses Aoki
Tokyo, Japan
Ulysses is a Japanese/American photographer based in Japan.
“Fire and Ice” is originally a poem by Robert Frost, discussing how the world will perish- either in fire or in ice.
This project challenges to be a visual representation of the poem, through the stark contrast of hot and cool- but also showing how these concepts tend to bleed into each other. The original poem discusses how both fire and ice are sufficient enough ways to overwhelm the human race and our natural environment. It goes through themes of environmental destruction but also implicates the consequences of humanity such as fire as active human destruction , and ice as a more quiet way of ending the world such as through hatred.