Motoi Yamamoto
Theme Magazine has kindly hooked me up with a subscription to their publication and if they hadn’t I might not have come across the amazing work of Motoi Yamamoto! Yamamoto uses salt to create large, insanely detailed, floor patterns. Pick up Theme (issue 18) to see way better photos of his work, and to read how he relates his work to keeping a diary.
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[...] decorative, grains, Installation, obsession, ornament, Pattern, petals, salt, time Original Source Posted by Alex Diaz on March 19th, 2009 0 Views Post Comment Click here to cancel [...]
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[...] 21st, 2009 Following the death of his sister to brain cancer, Motoi Yamamoto adopted salt as his primary artistic medium. In Japanese culture salt is not only a necessary [...]
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[...] Motoi Yamamoto membuat sebuah patern luar biasa yang ia ciptakan dari garam, ya garam! liat karyanya via Booooom. [...]
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[...] Japanese artist Motoi Yamamoto creates amazing labyrinths with salt. (via booooooom) [...]
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[...] Art made of salt. [...]
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[...] 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment Motoi Yamamoto’s “Salt” series are installations created from some people’s favorite seasoning ingredient, [...]
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[...] Yamamoto does instalations in rice and salt. Yup, rice and salt… check out his amazing work here and imagine how much time it takes to makes [...]
at first i thought they were just feathers.. and i was impressed.
then i see its salt.. and i’m amazed.
i’m going to look into this publication
My mind: *booooooom*
This reminds me quite strongly of labyrinths and also of the sand mandalas created by Tibetan (?) monks. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/getthebubbles/89356656/in/set-72057594049447714/) The tedious labor combined with the mandalas’ ephemeral nature is so poignant!
yes! totally – i saw a thing on tv once and it was incredible to see video footage of the monks slowly making the mandalas
absolutely breathtaking.
Holy Smokes. This is insane Hamada.
This is amazing. I haven’t seen anything like it and felt an instant connection to it. Really, truly amazing.
its absolutely amazing how we feel the pain staking amount of labour and patience went into this work. Just by our past experiences of making giant puzzles, lining up dominoes or just watching paint dry.
It must only be something sublime and spiritual for someone to put themselves through this pain…or joy?
Amazingly beautiful! And like Deniz said, you feel the amount of painstaking work that went into it, just by seeing it. The only word that came to mind was WOW!
…how..?!?!?!
prob he just likes salt very much
this is great! love the art, and will definitely be checking out the magazine.
So unique, beautiful, and odd at the same time.
Stumbled from Kentucky, US
Better hope nobody sneezes.
haha
I currently live in Kanazawa Japan where he did an exhibit at the 21st Century Museum. It was the same design style as the last two pictures you have posted there, except it covered a much larger area. It was amazing how close they let the patrons get to it. His work is so incredibly temporary.
my brain just exploded