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.

Forest of Beyond, July 2011

All images from Motoi Yamamoto's website.

Wishes big enough to change the world

JR is an artist who uses photography to engage people in disadvantaged communities by highlighting the individuals who make that place special, or any people, any place, just looking at people....we're all the same really.

Anyway, his work is amazing, and he has just won the TED prize for ideas 'Big enough to change the world', his project is explained (more eloquently) here... .http://www.insideoutproject.net/

I love the look of the scaled up black and white photo's amongst the houses, slowly fading away-very beautiful!
(image from wooster collective)