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Motoi Yamamoto creates intricate labyrinths made out of salt. Each labyrinth can take weeks to create. The result are stunning.
When asked why he uses salt, Yamamoto cited its importance to humans. “Salt seems to possess a close relation with human life beyond time and space.”
When a particular exhibition finally ends, Yamamoto asks that the salt be returned to the ocean. He says he likes to think the salt in his work might have, at one time, been part of some creature and supported its existence. “I believe that salt enfolds the memory of lives,” he writes.
Yamamoto has done other installations with salt, including these incredibly detailed depictions of cherry blossoms.
Link to the artist’s website via NPR. All images takes courtesy of Stefan Worring and Motoi Yamamoto.
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