10.03.10 by Jeff

Kumi Yamashita

Incredible shadow art by Kumi Yamashita. You should watch the video below to fully appreciate Kumi’s work. Wonderful stuff.

Shadow artist Kumi Yamashita

Shadow artist Kumi Yamashita

Shadow artist Kumi Yamashita

Shadow artist Kumi Yamashita

Shadow artist Kumi Yamashita

Shadow artist Kumi Yamashita

Kumi Yamashita also makes other incredible things, like these portraits completely detailed with thread.

Shadow artist Kumi Yamashita

Shadow artist Kumi Yamashita

And portraits created by removing threads!

Shadow artist Kumi Yamashita

And rubbings! This one was created rubbing on a credit card!

Shadow artist Kumi Yamashita

via: b/d

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35 Responses to “Kumi Yamashita”
  1. 10:03:10 jeffhamada:

    the portraits created removing pieces of thread from the cloth are my favourite

  2. 10:03:10 jeffhamada:

    also the talking head in the video clip

  3. 10:03:10 justin nelson:

    holy. crap. these are absolutely nuts!!

  4. 10:03:10 Jennifer:

    These are incredible!
    Wow! This guy is beastly good!

    • 10:03:10 jeffhamada:

      yes! kumi is a woman though – you should watch the video

  5. 10:03:10 nuloco:

    Jennifer: that guy is a she :) .
    Anyway, absolutely amazing work.

  6. 10:03:10 Sascha:

    These are incredible. Maybe some of my favorites from the stuff you’ve posted, Hamad’s

  7. 10:03:10 Chelsey:

    wow these are incredibly amazing! I am amazed by it all!

  8. 10:03:10 Emily:

    holy. shit. so cool!

  9. 10:03:10 michela:

    AND she doesn’t even work with a trace or anything on the base to follow her work.

  10. 10:03:10 angelone:

    absolutely awesome.
    i’d love to have one of these in the living room.

  11. 11:03:10 emily:

    AMAZING

  12. 11:03:10 mokasi:

    wow these are amazing such originality :)

  13. 11:03:10 Mel:

    thanks for showing us this! so great…

  14. 11:03:10 audrey bartis:

    amazing work! thanks for posting this!

  15. 11:03:10 Spoony:

    This is amazing, i like the talking heads so much, man this makes my day. thanks Jeff

  16. 11:03:10 daniela.:

    speechless…⚆_⚆

  17. 11:03:10 Max Calhao:

    Very Good! congratulations creativity

  18. 11:03:10 iLYA:

    Creative and not only circus as usually !

  19. 11:03:10 j.:

    The shadow pieces remind me a lot of the work Tim Noble & Sue Webster did

    http://www.gagosian.com/artists/tim-noble-and-sue-webster/#/images/6/

    Similar but wonderfully different in its own way.
    These are great.

  20. 12:03:10 randi:

    without a doubt, my favourite post to date. thank you for sharing.

  21. 17:03:10 Kenny Glenn:

    These are great… the ones with the shadows are very cool and the others are so detailed.

  22. 23:03:10 Kumiko:

    Incredible work. Thanks so much for sharing.

  23. 12:04:10 suki:

    wow, just….wow.

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