Designing Dementia

We’re all beautiful on the inside.  Rebecca Stevenson’s pastorally delicate resin sculptures concur.

In Japanese culture, salt is an integral ingredient during rituals for the recently deceased.  Artist Motoi Yamamoto, changed by the premature death of his sister, creates patterns of remarkable size and complexity using the sea borne seasoning.  His labyrinths resemble trees, falling leaves, or an aerial view of suburbia.  Each installation takes weeks to create, his choice of medium and the repeating nature of his work touches on the complex simplicity of life; a sense of interconnectedness amongst anonymity.

Incredibly arresting and fascinating wooden sculptures by Gerhard Lentink.  His artful combination of the human form with playful puzzle motifs lends his pieces a childlike wonder or perhaps a learned isolation.  Playing within the abstract, Lentink exposes the walls we build around ourselves and the loads we learn to carry.

People like to know where their food comes from, even if they only bother to trace the line as far as to say Chick-Fil-A.  But Mathilda Roussel’s living sculptures place us a little closer to the food cycle then most people would like to accept.  Someday I’ll feed the plants, then the plants will feed you.