Sculpture
Japanese artist creates enchanting worlds inside tiny bottles.
A Japanese artist, who goes by the name Segawa Thirty-Seven, has brought 17th-19th-century Ukiyo-e woodblock prints into the 21st century by transforming iconic woodblock images into animated GIFs. Some of the animations are from Katsushika Hokusai’s “36 Views of Mount Fuji”, which portray the famous mountain from a variety of angles, weather conditions and contexts. Segawa Thirty-Seven’s GIFs rang from charming glowing lights and kits that drift in the wind, to the juxtaposition of the old and new with a high-speed Japanese train whisking past an old-fashion Japanese station, to the ridiculous like a spaceship shrinking and beaming a mountain into its hull. ...
