Sekisoh Layers, 2021
Izumita Yukiyaexpand_more
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Gift of funds from Gordon Brodfuehrer in honor of Michael and Tamara Root and the Gary L. Gliem Endowment for Japanese Artexpand_more 2022.16
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Izumita Yukiya makes clay look like paper in his sculpture, “Sekisoh,” which translates to “lamination” or “accumulated layers.” His creative process begins by shaping paper: folding, bending, and twisting paper like origami. To form each layer, he places a piece of wet Japanese washi paper on a thin acrylic board and presses clay onto the paper until he attains the desired thinness. When the clay is dried, he peels off the paper, which leaves a coarse texture on the surface. Izumita is fascinated by weathered, corroded, and dried textures, which he believes encapsulates a certain timelessness – a moment of time in which an object could fall apart but does not. He seeks to capture the tension between fragility and stability in his sculptures.
Details
- Title
- Sekisoh Layers
- Artist Life
- born 1966
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2022.16
- Curator Approved
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