MOTOI YAMAMOTO

I was immediately in awe of the mazing work by Motoi Yamamoto. I found it here.

I loved this quote by the artist and why he was inspired to do this kind of work and why he keeps doing it. It's particularly relevant to my mom and family right now.

This is all out of salt....

so sad!

The mainspring of my work is derived from the death of my sister from brain cancer at the age of 24 in the winter of 1994.

Since then, I have had the dilemma, in grief and surprise, of thinking about what I had and lost. I started making art works that reflected such feelings and continue it as if I were writing a diary.

Many of my works take the form of labyrinths with complicated patterns, ruined and abandoned staircases or too narrow life-size tunnels, and all these works are made with salt.

A common perception towards them is "nearly reachable, yet not quite" or "nearly conceivable, yet not quite".

Memories seem to change and vanish as time goes by. However, what I sought for was the way in which I could touch a precious moment in my memories which cannot be attainable through pictures or writings.