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From the lengthy, swish flip of a rabbit’s ears to the comfortable embrace of polar bears, Nikichi summons the emotional nuances of intimacy, solitude, and contemplation in his delicately carved sculptures. Fastidiously uncovered wooden grain shapes knees and cheeks, paws clasp collectively in repose, and winged guests perch on delicately-hewn noses.
The Hokkaido-based artist has been sculpting animals for round a decade, within the ways in which folks relate to fluffy, recognizable creatures like bunnies and cats by anthropomorphizing their expressions and actions as a method of understanding and connecting to them. He fuses human and animal traits to discover what he describes as “the story of human sociality and life by overlapping the wildness and instinctiveness of animals,” populating a harmonious, legendary world.
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