Sculpture: Yoshimasa Tsuchiya’s quiescent wood sculptures

At first glance, Yoshimasa TSUCHIYA’s work appeared to me to be a fine example of the imaginary leap one takes in the process of digital compositing. But before I mislead you, let me clarify that Yoshimasa Tsuchiya is a sculptor that works with wood, not a digital artist.

Anyway, this Goldfish Sculpture was an earlier work.

Move forward to 2009/10, and one finds Yoshimasa Tsuchiya has given the whimsy a delicate palette of soft hues that I find very delightful in its airiness and faerie quality. 

Yoshimasa Tsuchiya’s collection appear to comprise a fair stable of mythical horse/deer-like creatures. Very pure, stable and quiescent. I would love to see them IRL one day.

  

Yoshimasa Tsuchiya’s site includes a picture page on the “making” process and more of his work of course.

Artist site http://yoshimasa-tsuchiya.net/
Via http://bblinks.blogspot.com/2011/03/yoshimasa-tsuchiya.html

Sources:
- http://www.dailyicon.net/2008/11/goldfish-sculpture-by-yoshimasa-tsuchiya/ 
- http://percentone.com/?p=43
- http://www.superyouth.org/yoshimasa-tsuchiya/
- http://howadorrible.wordpress.com/2011/01/20/yoshimasa-tsuchiya-wood-carvings/