I love the work of designer Tokujin Yoshioka, I was thinking about images from his exhibition 'Second Nature' (2008) last night - such genius! Crystals, clouds, mesmerising....
Tokujin Yoshioka created an installation called Clouds for the exhibition, made of thousands of overlapping transparent fibres. “I have tried to create a space, which will be retained in one’s memory like natural phenomenon that they had experienced before,” says T Yoshioka.
'Destiny' 2008 - Crystals growing on mesh screen
“Everything born of nature has a life”.
Tokujin Yoshioka talking, Second Nature, 2008
'These two-dimensional pieces in crystals incorporate a method of changing the shapes of crystals by playing music during the crystallization process. Completed by the laws of nature and embodying a beauty born of coincidence, the crystals in “Destiny” ...
...... it emerges out of nothing by the wondrous power of nature. At the same time, it reminds us of the boundary between the real and the imaginary world...... an appearance born of nature, a beauty that is beyond the reach of our imagination, and its glittering aura. ' Tokujin Yoshioka
I was lucky enough to hear his talk at the Sherman galleries - very inspiring!
I was lucky enough to hear his talk at the Sherman galleries - very inspiring!
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