Can you create sculptures out of cloth fibers, dust, and human hair? While that sounds like a conundrum waiting to give anyone a headache, it’s just another day at work for Japanese artist, Takahiro Iwasaki, who regularly builds landscape sculptures using the aforementioned materials.
We don’t mean simple sculptures, either. Instead, he crafts heavily detailed structures across the landscapes, including Ferris wheels, roller coasters, wireframe towers, and various industrial infrastructure, in addition to trees and other flora that litter his miniature fields.
In his first solo show on display at the Asia Society Museum in New York, entitled “In Focus,” Iwasaki built a wide landscape with the ground made from recycled Japanese kimonos called Out of Disorder (Folding Scenery). He separated the landscape across six large Plexiglas terrariums, which are arranged in a pattern resembling the folding screens of the 17th-century piece, “Flowers and Grasses of the Four Seasons.” Rather than leave them as bare grass fields like the work that inspired it, he erected multiple structures that represent our modern times, hence the presence of the towering infrastructures. The artist’s previous work includes a recreation of Coney Island (using beach towels as the ground and cloth fibers for the amusement park rides) and a landscape of industrial Japan (using human hair and cloth fibers).
You can read more about the artist’s works from the links below.
via Spoon & Tamago