Sensing Nature

Takashi Kuribayashi 'Wald aus Wald'

http://www.designboom.com/art/takashi-kuribayashi-paper-forest-wald-aus-wald-for-sapporo-international-art-festival-08-17-2014/

http://cats-forehead.com/feature/planted-revolution-vol2-Kuribayashi.html

“…the feeling of standing between this world and the next. That's the sort of place in which we reside; I'm trying to reveal the state of this intervening area, this space between the natural and the artificial.”

“Humans are always present in this ambiguous boundary between the artificial and the natural.”

“If we look at the question of how humans interact natural world, it's that in nature we find a lot of absolutely extraordinary things…that we humans build walls to protect ourselves from nature. But even though we attempt to shut out the natural world like this, we still can't live without it. That's why we build things like parks and gardens. But if we say that the parks and gardens are artificial, then that makes the insects, animals, and plants living within them some sort of fake nature as well.”

Tokujin Yoshioka 'The Snow

http://www.dezeen.com/2010/07/26/the-snow-by-tokujin-yoshioka/

http://www.designboom.com/design/tokujin-yoshioka-for-sensing-nature-exhibition/

'In recent years, I have been studying the essence that human beings would sense. It is neither arranging nor minimising the forms, but integrating the phenomena and the low of the nature into the design, and see how it would affect and inspire ourselves.'

'...I believe there is a hint for the future somewhere in-between the essence of the design and the nature...'