Thursday, February 11, 2010

Kumi Yamashita


This Japanese artist works with the shadows cast by small, nondescript objects positioned in a particular, but ambiguous, manner.

"I like looking at the light in the afternoon and watching shadows move. It reminds me that everything is always changing. I like thing that do not have concrete form, like clouds, water, shadows, and the kindness of people." -- Kumi Yamashita

Along with these shadow works, she created in 1993 close-up portraits using a pixel effect. She created these images with rubbings of the subject's credit cards.