Kaori Takamura
Region: West
This series, Between Shapes, investigates emotions while
expressing distant memories of childhood innocence and its
mischievous charm. Through my expression, I try to evoke
nostalgic memories of joy from a simpler time, using the method
of hand-stitching on wooden elements. Each of the elements in
my work is carefully and uniquely shaped, with a hint of animism
and the familiarity of motifs cited from everyday life. I apply
colorful fabric patterns that reverberate with a joyous and hearty
feeling in all of my compositional elements. For me, the process
of stitching on these elements reveals women’s tangled and
intricate daily feelings, and this is what I believe to be the core of
my expression.
I strive to transform ordinary objects into commentaries on
life through my metaphorical stitching-together of various
symbols, themes, concepts, and emotions to form a kind of
contemporary patchwork quilt of expressions. I like to incorporate
unconventional textile methods (like laser cutting) that are
based on traditional fabric patterning, embroidery, and lace
vector art as a way of expressing women's tangled feelings.
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