Scultura || Jiyuseki

Jiyuseki is a Japanese artist with a soft spot for an incredibly hard material– with his handmade craftsmanship, he creates the illusion that stones are actually soft, malleable objects, similar to fabric or foodstuff. The rocks ripple, melt, and unzip to reveal their unexpected new qualities, and the illusion is completed with some sparing use of props.
Its interesting to note the places where the texture and pattern of the stone is highlighted in the sculptures– instead of smoothing away the rough surface (which is what you typically see on marble sculptures and the like), the artist manipulates the rock’s natural appearance to retain the illusory effects.
Via Jeannie Jeannie