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#animals #birds #flowers #sculpture
Blooming Metallic Birds and Other Animals by Taiichiro Yoshida
Hanasuzume, 2013. Copper.
Artist Taiichiro Yoshida forms the delicate wings of birds and fluffy fur of mammals from a variety of sculpted metal flowers of bronze, copper, or silver. Decorative hot metalworking in Japan is considered an ancient technique, beginning sometime in the 2-3rd century BC. Yoshida achieves the fragile nature of each piece through smithing, where the hot metal is carefully beaten and then formed into blooms before being colored.
You can see more of his work on Artsy. (via Cross Connect, Hi-Fructose)
Fire Bird, 2014. Wood, grass, copper, phosphor bronze, bird’s skull.
#animals #birds #flowers #sculpture
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