Dek Unu Magazine - Van O

Moscow art photographer and cryptozoologist, Van O takes a few gears, motors, wires, springs, glassware, and gizmos, adds a few lobsters, pork chops, doll babies, skeletons, snakes, and plant life, stirs in parts of beautiful women and an occasional handsome man, and washes everything in cyan or sepia to create still life images that are anything but “still.” Van O infuses his static tableaux with movement, not the blur of physical action, but, rather, moments of transformation, changes in meaning and context, in complex constructions that lead the eye through seemingly endless figure-eights of detail. Although complex, Van O's extraordinary skill as a craftsman and composer, his art and magic, brings order and life to the tumult. Each image appears to be a photojournalistic message made to document and report on life in a very, very strange world.