Materials: Japanese alloys, copper, brass, silver, sapphire
Dimensions: 6cm x 15cm x 20cm (H x W x D)
It is difficult to obtain colors on metal, especially blue color. This piece represents my feeling toward the sky from the ground, looking up at the sky, using various metals gotten slightly different blue colors by mainly chemical reactions.
Photo credit: Guy Nicol
Yuka Okane Inoue
Lake Forest, Illinois. USA
Main themes I often use are "vitality of plants," and "connection to the sky." Sprouts budding from the ground in spring, buds and flowers trying to reaching toward the sky give me energies, all the more so, they connect me to the sky, where I can not reach to, the place where my mother is. Through the motifs I use, the plants and sky’s blue color, I feel that I may be able to reach her, and gain engulfed by her loves and strength. My feeling towards the sky will never dry up, no matter where I am.
Materials: Japanese alloys, copper, brass, silver, sapphire
Dimensions: 6cm x 15cm x 20cm (H x W x D)
It is difficult to obtain colors on metal, especially blue color. This piece represents my feeling toward the sky from the ground, looking up at the sky, using various metals gotten slightly different blue colors by mainly chemical reactions.
Photo credit: Guy Nicol
Yuka Okane Inoue
Lake Forest, Illinois. USA
Main themes I often use are "vitality of plants," and "connection to the sky." Sprouts budding from the ground in spring, buds and flowers trying to reaching toward the sky give me energies, all the more so, they connect me to the sky, where I can not reach to, the place where my mother is. Through the motifs I use, the plants and sky’s blue color, I feel that I may be able to reach her, and gain engulfed by her loves and strength. My feeling towards the sky will never dry up, no matter where I am.