I’ve been to Bristol Museum with friends today and one of the highlights was a creation by Ikuta Niyoko. ‘Ku (Free Essence 32)’, is made from thin slices of laminated glass joined together to make it three dimensional. Niyoko begins by drawing to capture an emotion and explore Buddhist concepts, as well as the complex reflections an refractions of light.
I hope you enjoy this work as much as I did, do you agree that it’s a good example of ‘Twist’? I think it fits well for this weeks Photo Challenge. Click an image for a larger view.
You can join in at http://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_photo_challenge/twist/
Lucid Gypsy 
Like poetry — in glass..
Exquisite art and complex in the making.
How can you come to Bristol & not tell me?!! I would have loved seeing this work. NEXT TIME Gilly!
Ahh Julia I go once or twice a year and you would love the friends I meet. You can still see the work though, I think it’s a permanent piece – on the 2nd floor stairway I think it was!
That is gorgeous..
Oh I would have loved this! what a gorgeous color! You must have shi*t when you saw something so perfect for the challenge…I love when things work out that easily!
Beautiful sculpture.
So beautiful…waves of turquoise glass
Marvelous!
They are truly lovely. What a talented artist.
I really like your new header photo.
That’s stunning.
janet
Wow, that’s amazing!
Most unusual and fascinating work. I’ve said it before, you DO photograph the best objects. Looks like a lot of work.
This is amazing art in glass. I love it.
Glass is so fascinating. I live a couple of hours away from the Corning Museum of Glass in New York State, we’ve gone down numerous times and there is always something new and interesting to see.
Wow! So beautiful 🙂
Perfect, and so lovely, Gilly. 🙂
This is so beautiful! Great capture!
So beautiful and that first shot is stunning! I hadn’t noticed before enlarging since the others drew me in more in the smaller format. Niyoko’s work with evocative and exquisite…thank you for sharing it.
Reblogged this on Elizabeth Weaver and commented:
I love both the source of Niyoko’s sculptures and how glass plays with light and evokes emotion. Please enlarge the first photo for a sense of how stunning this work truly is.
This is stunning! Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful! Who would think you could do this with glass?
Gilly this work is stunning! Thank you so much for sharing 🙂
it is exquisite Gilly and yes…thank you for sharing it with us.
Perfect indeed Gilly! And oh so beautiful!
Awesome display and find, Gilly. I wonder what or where the buddhist concept is?
Apparently the artist is exploring the concept of emptiness in this work!
it is always so amazing when something hard and solid can appear so fluid and soft. kind of reminds me of Michelangelo’s sculptures made of marble transformed into life-like personas.
this glass looks gorgeous, and it i perfect for the challenge. thanks for sharing.
urk, that was supposed to say “and it is perfect”
I’m amazed. 🙂
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