shinji turner-yamamoto :: round thoughts

ROUND THOUGHTS n. 4 / 2001 / 6 x 6 x 6 cm / Etna's lava, clay





R O U N D   T H O U G H T S

I incorporated clay into fragments of newborn rocks

formed by lava from Mount Etna.

They emerged as a series of mental concretions, nodules of the mineral world,

seeds of nature transformed into "seeds of thought."

In this blurring of the boundary between the natural and the manmade,

I sense the feelings of the human, mineral, and plant world.

Shinji Turner-Yamamoto
Castelmola, Sicily - December 2001





shinji turner-yamamoto :: round thoughts

ROUND THOUGHTS n. 5 / 2001 / 7 x 7 x 7 cm / Etna's lava, clay



shinji turner-yamamoto :: round thoughts

ROUND THOUGHTS n. 6 / 2001 / 5 x 5 x 5 cm / Etna's lava, clay



shinji turner-yamamoto :: round thoughts

ROUND THOUGHTS n. 3 / 2001 / 5.5 x 5.5 x 5.5 cm / Etna's lava, clay



shinji turner-yamamoto :: round thoughts

ROUND THOUGHTS n. 2 / 2001 / 5 x 5 x 5 cm / Etna's lava, clay



shinji turner-yamamoto :: round thoughts

ROUND THOUGHTS n. 1 / 2001 / 4.5 x 4.5 x 4.5 cm / Etna's lava, clay



shinji turner-yamamoto :: round thoughts

ROUND THOUGHTS n. 7 / 2001 / 4.5 x 8 x 4.5 cm / Etna's lava, clay



shinji turner-yamamoto :: round thoughts

ROUND THOUGHTS n. 9 / 2001 / 13.5 x 7.5 x 7 cm (3 elements) / Etna's lava, clay, ferula communis, gypsum, glue

shinji turner-yamamoto :: round thoughts



P E N S I E R I   T O N D I

Ho inglobato con la creta alcuni frammenti di lava dell’Etna, rocce appena nate.

Sono una serie di concrezioni mentali, possono somigliare a noduli o concrezioni naturali del mondo minerale,

una sorta di semi della natura trasformati in "semi del pensiero".

Sfumando il confine tra il naturale e l’artificiale,

cerco di intravedere i sentimenti sia del mondo umano, che di quello minerale e vegetale.

Shinji Turner-Yamamoto
Castelmola, Sicilia - dicembre 2001

 

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