Japanese artist Kumi Yamashita creates amazing shadow art by using various seemingly ordinary items and some light.
A giant steel exclamation point, lit from right angle becomes a question mark, paper sheets cast shadows that look like faces, aluminum numbers add up to create a silhouette of a woman – these are just a few examples of what can be done with shadows. The possibilities are endless, but you probably already knew that if you had seen the works of Tim Noble & Sue Webster or Rashad Alakbarov that we posted earlier.
“I sculpt shadow with light or sometimes light with shadow, but both function in essentially the same manner. I take objects and carve and place them in relation to a single light source. The complete artwork is therefore comprised of both the material (the solid objects) and the immaterial (the light or shadow).”
Website: kumiyamashita.com
City View
Origami
Untitled (Child)
Chair
A to Z
Seated Figure
Pathway
Question Mark
Lovers
Clouds
Amazing Shadow Art by Kumi Yamashita originally appeared on Bored Panda on June 19, 2012.
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