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tokujin yoshioka. (one of my favorite designers..! ) the museum presents a philosophical theme and the artists/designers "think about how the innate human ability to perceive nature (to sense nature) and the japanese view of nature exist in our urbanized and modernized world." (mori art museum)
the artists/designers believe that nature is subsumed in all life-forms, including human beings. their works suggest that although the majority of the (japanese) population now reside in cities and the modern world, they too have inherited this resonance of nature somewhere deep in their thoughts, memory, and sensory perception.
yoshioka presents a 15-meter (50') wide installation of whiteness, feathers and light simulating a panoramic snow scape. the whimsical motion of the feathers
precipitating through the space elicits the memory of snow. this experience slowly dissipates the prescribed association of nature and heightens the haptic sensibilities. the idea is to manipulate the sensory perception through artificial simulation of snowfalling in order to inspire the viewer to re-think the meaning of "sensing nature".
amazing! i hope you enjoy the idea + the images.
* images: tokujin yoshioka inc.
