I tend to like and gravitate toward art that I think is visually pleasing and cool to look at, and with that in mind, it's no surprise that I really love the work of Tomohiro Inaba. Inaba is a Japanese artist who works in Japan and mainly works sculpturally. Inaba mainly uses metal that looks solid and densely coiled near the ground, but ends up almost disintegrating as the sculpture extends into the air. It's so impressive how Inaba is able to manipulate iron like this, and that most of the iron he uses seem to be in long, single pieces. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find Inaba's artist statement despite a long time Google searching, so I'm not entirely sure how Inaba wants his work to be interpreted, but it is also interesting to try and make my own meaning out of these pieces.
Because of this, I started thinking more about the importance of having an artist statement alongside your work. Some work like Inaba's doesn't have a clear meaning from just one look at it, and different people will glean different meanings based on who they are and how their minds work. In some ways, letting viewers create their own meaning out of your work is a cool concept, but in others, it would be interesting to see what was going on in the artist's mind when they decided to make the work. Hopefully someday I'll find Inaba's artist statement. Inaba's Website
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AuthorA senior at Maggie Walker taking Art IV Archives
May 2018
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