AMABIKI VILLAGE AND SCULPTURE

AMABIKI 2011 / MURAKAMI Tsukumo

accumulation : a pile wood blossom

F.R.P.
R: 182×55×182 (h)cm
L: 200×200×200 (h)cm

The materials that are used in sculpture have their own diverse affairs and histories.
The tree I used this time is a cherry tree from our home that we needed to cut down.
For so long, our daily lives have passed in easy harmony with this tree, but now we will never see its beautiful blossoms again.
Feeling a hard-hearted moment, I gather together everything from the trunk to the branches and show everything from the inside and the outside, to create a tree's blossom.

AMABIKI 2006 / MURAKAMI Tsukumo

Spirit of wolf

F.R.P.
300×240×240 (h)cm

THE FIFTH AMABIKI VILLAGE AND SCULPTURE / MURAKAMI Tsukumo

Stage of Gods

Acacia, Oak, Magnolia
270×280×500 cm
1500 kg

A stage of chair on the open land in Ohkunitama of Yamato Village. I am drawn by trees as material, and I have spent a long time using the methods of sculpture? carving, cutting, polishing, assembling, forming and so on? to express their fate in sculptures. But I should add planting to that list of tasks. I really want this relationship to be a beautiful one.

THE FOURTH AMABIKI VILLAGE AND SCULPTURE / MURAKAMI Tsukumo

GOD HAS LEFT

Wood (Zelkova tree, Japanese cypress, Crape myrtle)
300×340×370 cm
2000 kg

The trees I used in my work were crape myrtle from Oshima, zelkova from Fukushima and sawara cypress from Ibaraki. Each type is a giant tree, centuries old, and they had finished their labors in their different regions. Combining and assembling them gave birth to a new tree from trees. If they all had decayed, they will return to the refined stage of a tree. I think that I have done an extra thing again.

THE THIRD AMABIKI VILLAGE AND SCULPTURE / MURAKAMI Tsukumo

Chair of God

Zelkova
250×240×450 cm
2500 kg

THE SECOND AMABIKI VILLAGE AND SCULPTURE / MURAKAMI Tsukumo

MESSAGE OF LIGHT (I AM HERE)

Wood (an oak), Lamp
90×80×300 cm, 90×200×90cm
400 kg, 300 kg