Royal Road Test

Royal Road Test – Inspired by Ed Ruscha’s artist book in which Ruscha and two friends threw a typewriter out of a moving car and then documented the incident with photographs. Homma’s homage features Yusuke Nakajima as the ‘thrower’, Yoshihisa Tanaka as the ‘driver’ and Takashi Homma as the ‘photographer’. Replacing the original typewriter with an iMac DV Special Edition, the three artists meticulously reconstruct Ruscha’s series, adopting the same poses, the same sense of the ridiculous and using the design of the original book’s spiral binding.