Nahoko Kojima is to stop getting absorbed on that huge whale made of paper. An artist who has made his debut in Thailand with this sculpture made by hand with the Japanese paper "shiro".
We are facing the largest work made by this artist and that reaches reach 32 meters long. A work made on paper taken from two gigantic pieces of paper cut completely by hand.
A very handmade work in which Nahoko Kojima has taken pains to make highlight the laboriousness of the work in which no machine has been used. A work inspired by the whale view in Hawaii by the artist herself.
Seeing that whale with her own eyes got her started the study of these huge cetaceans prevailing ocean with its incredible figures and those fins that allow them to cross the land from east to west.
Nahoko Kojima does a very special bond with the traditional kirie, or as the Japanese art of papercutting is also called. A paper of enormous proportions and his daily effort to cut those sheets based on his own drawings for months.
An enormous job in which he used countless hours of time to be able to erect this huge whale paper. It takes a lot of space to be able to house a piece that reaches 32 meters in length. Apart from being able to move it to make it perfect as the Kojima designed.
A work made in washi paper arranged by a paper mill from Japan that made it to measure and that took months to cut the artist herself. In order to transport the work, the pieces of paper had to be separated on one side and rolled up, while later they had to be assembled in order to lift the paper whale.
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