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#animals #butterflies #flowers #metal #sculpture #Taiichiro Yoshida
Innumerable Metal Leaves and Flowers Cloak Intricately Sculpted Animals by Taiichiro Yoshida
“The Dog in the Night Fog”
Japanese artist Taiichiro Yoshida (previously) continues his surveys into the possibilities of metalsmithing with a new series of elaborately layered sculptures. Spending between two and six months on each work, Yoshida meticulously molds copper, bronze, silver, and other materials by hand, creating countless metallic pieces with intricately impressed textures and edgings. Once wrapped around an armature of a dog, chick, or stuffed teddy bear, the fragile components ripple across the form, or as is the case with “The Dog in the Night Fog,” they appear as dozens of butterflies poised for flight. Explore a larger collection of Yoshida’s wrought sculptures on his site.
“Shell.” All images © Taiichiro Yoshida, shared with permission
Detail of “The Dog in the Night Fog”
“Red chick no. 6”
“Vessel”
“Calico”
“Doppel”
“Mottled rabbit”
#animals #butterflies #flowers #metal #sculpture #Taiichiro Yoshida
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