Takato Shikuronuma

 

Enigmatic beauty carved by Takato Shikuronuma an architect who became a self taught sculptor.

Mokko Kumakichi

Tiny carved creatures by Japanese woodworker Mokko Kumakichi, (further work on this website).

Yuko Kan

There is something fascinating about the carvings of Yuco Kan and for me it is that they sometimes look so awkward, so embarrassed, Yuko's imaginings have been exposed captured from her inner thoughts, carved and displayed and they somehow look uncomfortable in your gaze, they are wonderful.

Christian Renonciat II

"Cardboard is a fascinating material that cats, children and the homeless have always been recognized: it is the best body mirrors, which it refers, intact, its heat; it has the sweetness of bis papers which it is made, and soft and warm color of light wood.

This is not all: these properties, combined with a miraculous strength, resulting from the successful marriage of material and geometry: the paper and waving (sinusoid). This is a unique material, a pure product of human genius, half flesh half idea. The industry has made us all the subtleties, choosing varieties of paper for each layer of cardboard (inside softer, stronger outside, etc..), Varying the wavelength waves superimposed paper for that no weakness resulting from repetition.

And me, I delight, I lose myself in this subtlety that I discovered in the transcribing, I understand in the dissecting. Because of the time that is an order moment, and slip by which one is lost, out of scale in a piece of cardboard, there is sometimes even in these moments of the workshop (in because of the music, too), great joys of travel to Lewis Carroll. The carton is then like a little Chinese lacquer: it fits in the hand, but holds the ingredients of the world: a mountain, a heron, a waterfall, a philosopher ...

The carton has an infinite number of ways to resist tearing, to yield to it if necessary, to heal wounds, to finally sing this undulations partition that looks suspiciously like a modern musical score.

Cardboard is a world where everyone recognizes." Christian Renonciat

Maskull Lasserre

Maskull Lasserre explores the familiar, by creating the unexpected, and so causes us to re-examine our expectations and our acceptance of utility objects in our daily lives. These objects that have become invisible work horses suddenly get an anatomical life of their own, Maskull's workmanship is incredible.

Joe Brubaker

I know it's not furniture but it is wood and I wanted you to see the way that sculptor Joe Brubaker works it to create these startling 'totems'.
"Carving . . . is necessarily an 'action' art, and I think the presence of the hand on the work is one of the highly appealing characteristics of woodwork. I also feel that wood, even painted or with a patina, has a warmth and depth that few other art mediums can match." Joe Brubaker (thanks).