Forest of Beyond, July 2011
All images from Motoi Yamamoto's website.
11 March 2012
Motoi Yamamoto
I have just discovered the work of Motoi Yamamoto who makes the most incredible sculptures out of salt. His work is delicate and intricate, forming masses of patterns out of a medium which is so common. What I like about the idea of using salt is the lack of permanence it ensures; it instantly gives the work a transience and a connection to the time and place it was made. Yamamoto states that the salt sculptures began after his sisters death from brain cancer, and was his way of exploring complicated patters like that of the brain, the salt is relevant as it is used in traditional death customs in Japan.
