I could not have expected such refined and meticulous work from anybody but a Japanese artist. Hasegawa Yoshio created a series of sculptural pieces, modeled after a soda can and hand-crafted out of paper and acrylic. Read the full story

The Coffin

I absolutely love the work of Japanese artist, Naoko Yoshimoto. Her conceptual sculptures are often made of condensed garments (most commonly in white) and depict conventional objects through an interesting social commentary created by the medium and its vessel. Her work almost immediately makes me think of Martin Margiela.

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Japanese Artist Fumie Sasabuchi reworks the pages of fashion magazines and deconstructs the perception of a perfect physique and plays a lot with the subject of death. She uses this tool to freely explore an underlying surface, therefore creating hybrid body images in which promotional aesthetic is fused with material naturalistic anatomical study. Fumie Sasabuchi comments on how our skin naturally protects our body.

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