Contributor post by Lisa Solomon
i first spied yuken teruya's work in a home. i was sitting talking to the collector and across the room i saw this bag - and did it have a tree IN it? when there was a break in our conversation i walked over to it and was instantly smitten. there was a tree. painstakingly carved from the top of the bag and then gingerly dropped into the interior.
the whole piece and what it encompassed - a tree makes a bag, the bag makes a tree; turning an ordinary object into something so captivating; looking beyond traditional materials for art-making.
this was a moment where i seriously thought - damn. i wish i had come up with that idea ! (See more after the jump)!
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i first spied yuken teruya's work in a home. i was sitting talking to the collector and across the room i saw this bag - and did it have a tree IN it? when there was a break in our conversation i walked over to it and was instantly smitten. there was a tree. painstakingly carved from the top of the bag and then gingerly dropped into the interior.
the whole piece and what it encompassed - a tree makes a bag, the bag makes a tree; turning an ordinary object into something so captivating; looking beyond traditional materials for art-making.
this was a moment where i seriously thought - damn. i wish i had come up with that idea ! (See more after the jump)!
