Video: In the language of nature: sculptural work by Hitomi Hosono
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Working on her piece, a Japanese artist Hitomi Hosono (Hitomi Hosono) does not seek to "catch up and overtake" nature: while she is day and night working in her studio on a sculptural image of some graceful flower, the same plant in natural conditions will have time to be born, dry up and be reborn. Target Hitomi the other - she wants to touch the great mystery of nature.
Since childhood, she was fascinated by the beauty of the plant world. Having once taken up the modeling of an image of a nondescript, at first glance, wood leaf, Hitomi I was very impressed with how its thin veins intertwined and branched, from the incredible amount of the smallest details and nuances that were present in such a small area.
Since then, she has set herself the goal of bringing the beauty and detail of the beautiful representatives of the flora family into her sculptural work, and using the language of nature as her own.
Each sculpture takes Hitomi a lot of time. To illustrate, an example can be given: since the artist makes her works from clay, they must go through a drying process before firing. In the case of her large sculptures, it takes at least five months.
Looking at extraordinarily realistic sculptures Hitomi Hosono, you might think that when working on them, she did not release a handbook on botany or, for example, a book of photographs by Andrew Zuckerman. But this is a deceptive impression and, in her own words Hitomi, she recreates each of her sculptural images of a plant from memory.
It should be noted that memory leads from Hitomi quite a fun game. Often, having sculpted an incredibly detailed and complex image of a plant, the artist cannot remember its name. In this case, she sends her mother a photo of her new job and asks for a hint about what it is. To this she invariably receives something like this: "Oh, well, this is a plant from our garden, don't you remember?"
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