It is Monday again, and how great is it to start your Monday with some GLOWing Art Inspiration. It is amazing what inspiration and creativity can do to an everyday item such as salt! Japanese artist Motoi Yamamoto uses salt to create incredible salt mazes. Currently exhibited at the Hakone Open-Air Museum in Kanagawa, Japan.
Motoi Yamamoto is an incredibly patient man, considering that his complicated salt labyrinths can take weeks to create and require a slow, steady hand. His work takes the form of labyrinths and complex patterns, like cherry blossoms. The result is a beautifully detailed and impermanent exhibition. When asked why he uses salt, Yamamoto cited its importance to humans. “Salt seems to possess a close relation with human life beyond time and space”.
The importance of salt in Japanese culture was also a bit more personal for Yamamoto. In 1994, his sister passed away at the age of 24 from brain cancer. Thinking about her and what he had lost, he began creating art that reflected his grief.
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