Video: Mitsuru Koga and her skillfully cut leaves
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
On a fine autumn day, fallen leaves rustle softly under your feet, which soulless janitors rake in heaps and, at best, take away to hell, and at worst, burn them right where they raked them. It's not good with leaves, it's disrespectful … And the Japanese artist Mitsuru Koga knows this very well. In her hands, the leaves turn into real works of art. Though small …
Mitsuru Koga graduated from the University of Arts in Tokyo, and was supposed to become a certified artist … However, suddenly a tree branch fell into her hands, the leaves on which were skillfully eaten by some insect. It's amazing how such a small creature can turn a whole bunch of leaves into lace, the graduate thought then, and decided that since a bug can create such masterpieces, then a person is even more so. As a result of hard work, Mitsuru Koga has a whole collection of amazing clippings from a variety of leaflets.
More recently, an exhibition of works by Mitsuru Koga took place in California. However, there, in addition to deciduous, one could see stone art by the same author. However, we will talk about it next time.
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