photo: SAIKI Taku
Wax and Wane
| Artist | TSUKADA Midori |
|---|---|
| Year | 2003 |
| Material/ Technique | glass, copper, silver |
| Size/ Duration | H9 × W60 × D54cm |
| Copyright Notice | © TSUKADA Midori |
| Year of acquisition/ donation | 2005 |
| Description | Born in Gifu, Japan in 1972. Lives and works in Toyama. Af ter studying metalwork at Takaoka National College, she studied glass at various places including the Notojima Glass Studio, Pilchuck Glass School in the U.S., Toyama City Institute of Glass Art, and Kanazawa Utatsuyama Kogei Kobo. Joining glass techniques such as casting, blowing and cutting, Tsukada produces works that remind us of motion in natural phenomena or succession of cells. In recent years, she uses a technique of mixing metal in glass, and focuses on the generating process in which different materials clash against each other and are fused. The title of this work ‘colony’ means aggregation of bacteria and cultivation cells. Given form is the moment the cells gather and jostle each other, and are about to move as one lump. The artist put in a plaster mold stick-shaped glass wrapped in bronze leaf along with transparent glass side by side and melted them. By the heat, each glass piece enclosed in bronze leaf turns pentagonal and is connected together. It generated such a visible effect that it looks overflowing from the inside to the outside. What looks blue is bronze leaf that reacted to the effect of heat. Numerous blue lines, which are melted bronze, can be seen inside the work "Wax and Wane" as remains of the solution. Instead of using colored glass to express color, she combines metal and glass, predicting the color that shows up after the materials have melted. Creating the work while making use of accidental elements, Tsukada shows a new sensibility. |
NOTES
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