Japanese artist Kayo Yokoyama, who lives in the Blue Mountains of Australia, turns the forest scenery in the mountains into patterns on glass vases. The fragile glass will break with the slightest force, but Yokoyama can skillfully use a drill with diamonds on it. Holding an electric drill, he carves out the natural scenes seen in life on the glass, which makes people admire his skillful hands and ingenuity.
Yokoyama named this series of works Sanctuary to symbolize a place where people can feel safe and calm, and at the same time can express their emotions and self without scruples, including happiness, sadness, precipitation and meditation. Place, for Yokoyama, is the concept of home.
Since Yokoyama has always lived among trees, trees are as close and familiar to him as home, and they are also an ever-important creative element.
These trees not only symbolize physical scenery in nature, but also represent a certain kind of self-awareness, the most basic order in the world, and the ultimate belonging-"home", so sometimes Yokoyama will deliberately add "home" at the bottom of the sculpture. A piece of clean color is suspended, representing a scene in nature. Placing a chair among the trees symbolizes the existence and non-existence of the self. However, whether it is the loneliness and beauty of looking at the scenery alone, or the loneliness of an empty chair, Yokoyama hopes that every viewer can be reminded of his home through his works.
Yokoyama was born in Japan and came to Australia in 1997 to pursue his artistic career. He obtained a bachelors degree in visual arts from the University of Sydney in 2001 and a masters degree in art in 2011. In September 2014, Yokoyama and artist Martin Campbell held a joint exhibition at the Lost Bear Gallery in New South Wales. In the exhibition, in addition to trees, Yokoyama also carved churches, castles and other buildings, with various themes such as religion and spirituality. level, further completing the concept of the temple. I wonder if after appreciating this series of works by Yokoyama, everyone will feel the tranquility of finally finding a home after wandering for a long time?
