Video: Unusual portraits. The ability to wrinkle paper from Kumi Yamashita (Kumi Yamashita)
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Everyone knows the love of the Japanese for beauty, grace, nature, light and miniature. All these factors are combined by the artist Kumi Yamashita in her series of some of the most unusual in the world. Shadow Portraitwhich are made from the spatial imagination of the author and crumpled paper … Kumi Yamashita is one of the most unusual artists of our time, where madness and shocking are the main tools of creative people. We have already talked about some of the extraordinary works of this Japanese woman, for example, installations of shadow and light or portraits drawn with a hundred nails and one thread.
A new series of works by Kumi Yamashita combines these two of her creative methods. That is, they combine the desire to create a portrait, and the desire to do it with the help of light and shadows.
Kumi Yamashita makes portraits from the Shadow Portrait series with just pieces of paper. It doesn't matter what color and size they are. These can be small square leaves for short notes, printer-size sheets, or pages from a notebook. A Japanese artist can turn any of these materials into a portrait of a person.
To do this, she just needs to wrinkle it a little and put it on the light source at the right angle. And on the table where Kumi Yamashita puts this piece of crumpled paper, a shadow in the form of a human profile immediately forms.
Moreover, Kumi Yamashita herself claims that in this way she can create a portrait of any complexity and any degree of similarity to the original. True, this amazing beauty will easily be spoiled, destroyed by just touching it or changing the direction or intensity of the light source. However, for Japan, such an idea of beauty and art, as we said above, is quite within the framework of tradition!
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