Tamayo Konishi – Sculpture
During the recent event of Tokyo University of Arts at Marunouchi Building I also had time to check out some more work of a few of their graduate students. Here is my absolute favorite, a series of statues, each with an individual expression and lovely head piece of strawberries and cream、by the artist Tamayo Konishi (小西珠代), called “女の子、であること”, which I would loosely translate as “Being a girl”. I don’t know anything about the artist besides her being mentioned in this PDF from her university (page 8), with a photo of her graduation piece. There is also a photo of the artist and the reasoning behind her work in this PDF. Interesting, and definitely an opinion about being female in Japan that I have heard many times before. I’d love to see more of her work!
Sorry for the repetitive nature of these photos, I just couldn’t stop shooting! More photos from other entries in this art event coming up over the weekend! Stay tuned!
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Wonderfully sweet and slightly creepy. Such a delightful sculpture! My favorite part of all is the icing-covered base… and the slight amount of wood grain you can see underneath! >_<
You are a great art curator!
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Haha… thanks! Only because I can’t stand 99% of modern art, maybe. I think I know what Halloween costume I will be recommending to my nieces next year! (^-^;)
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Like small fairies made of cream and some strawberries..strange but i like it.
They seem like thye can see something we can’t:3I wonder what..
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That’s a great mental image there, “fairies made of cream and strawberries”. I think I just go a vision of rhyming nursery tale involving candy fairies mad from eating too much sugar! (^-^)
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I really like this one.
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Thanks FN!
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Nice sharing….
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Thanks Chorwin!
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I absolutely adore it!
And love your blog! Glad I found it!
happy easter x
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Isn’t it gorgeous? Welcome to the blog! Hope to see you here soon again! (^-^)/
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recommended your blog you my step-daughter. she is obsessed with Japan 🙂 x
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Thank you for that! I hope she comes to visit soon! (^-^)
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Wonderful … !
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Thank you for the comment Viveka! (^-^)/
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[…] So instead I will post pic’s of pretty things! Aren’t these gorgeous gals just so lovely? I adore their almost cake like outfits, with strawberry hats and icing coats. I am not quite sure where I first saw them, but I have had the page open for so long on my iPad, that I simple had to share. The artist is Tamayo Konishi a, now former, student at the Tokyo University of Arts. I dont know much more than that – you can see the original article I bookmarked here. […]
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