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






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


And portraits created by removing threads!

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

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01:04:10[...] inkling how it is done) and involves objects and light to create its effect. Apparently, the artist Kumi Yamashita sets up various objects whose cast shadows on the wall transform into figures of people and faces. [...]
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the portraits created removing pieces of thread from the cloth are my favourite
also the talking head in the video clip
holy. crap. these are absolutely nuts!!
These are incredible!
Wow! This guy is beastly good!
yes! kumi is a woman though – you should watch the video
Jennifer: that guy is a she
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Anyway, absolutely amazing work.
These are incredible. Maybe some of my favorites from the stuff you’ve posted, Hamad’s
ya mine too
wow these are incredibly amazing! I am amazed by it all!
holy. shit. so cool!
AND she doesn’t even work with a trace or anything on the base to follow her work.
absolutely awesome.
i’d love to have one of these in the living room.
AMAZING
wow these are amazing such originality
thanks for showing us this! so great…
amazing work! thanks for posting this!
This is amazing, i like the talking heads so much, man this makes my day. thanks Jeff
speechless…⚆_⚆
Very Good! congratulations creativity
Creative and not only circus as usually !
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.
without a doubt, my favourite post to date. thank you for sharing.
These are great… the ones with the shadows are very cool and the others are so detailed.
Incredible work. Thanks so much for sharing.
wow, just….wow.