Photo reblogged from Enthusiasms
Decision 3:00, 2. round, Submission (Kimura), 2006, from No Holds Barred by Norwegian artist Kjetil Kausland. There’s something fascinating about the abstraction of these bodies — yet there’s raw emotion too: just look at the faces. Looks almost like an embrace, but it’s the opposite.
Kausland wasn’t content with simply watching through a lens, though. He decided to step up, trained for a year and fought a real match against a professional fighter in 2008. (The sport is illegal in Norway, but apparently it’s ok if you call it art.) “It’s about feeling alive,” he has said. (Insert discussion of feelings of ennui, existential despair, meaninglessness, abstraction, and so on.) Being in the moment, the zone, zen, mindful — it’s true: if you’re in a cage trying to destroy a man who’s trying to destroy you, I bet you aren’t thinking “did I remember to turn off the stove back home?”
See Fight Club…
Source: dailymeh
