Friday, September 19, 2008

Junko Mori


Junko Mori was inspired to create her work from the act of wondering. Sitting by a tree and asking herself where beauty came from. By noticing the simple things in nature she realized that everything may appear to be the same, but it can still be completely different from the rest. Mori is a metalworker that uses precious and non-precious metals. She creates with forged steel and other materials to create multiple single pieces to create sculptures appears wispy, fragile and delicate. Mori works with a degree of different sizes from smaller silver forms to larger wall instillation in her work. She use repetition in her work to create the feeling that the piece is made up of cells and the final piece emerges with in the process of repetition. She is drawn to the visual impact by many small components and finding the infinite possibilities in which they go together. No one piece in her work is planned out but all come together for the final concept of her work.


27 Silver Organism
Forged Fine Silver
160 x 140 x 135mm

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