Feb 5, 2009

Incredible Shadow Installations .//

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Kumi Yamashita creates outstanding shadow installations with lightning and simple forms like numbers and letters. The light projected towards them create stunning effects.





Image 1&2 City View ,2003 ./ Light, Aluminum, Shadow ./Nanba Parks Tower./
Description: The numbers scattered on the wall, lit from the right, cast a silhouette of a woman.

Image 3 - Origami,2005 ./ Light, Aluminum, Shadow ./
Description: The each color sheet on the wall, lit from the right, casts a silhouette of a profile.

Image 4 - Clouds,2005 ./ Light, Aluminum, Shadow ./ Stellar Place Sapporo JR Tower
Description: The thin metal object on the wall, lit from above, casts the silhouette of a couple.

Image 5 - Glider ,2002 ./ Light, Aluminum, Shadow ./Takikawa Hall, Hokkaido, Japan.
Description: The thin metal object on the wall casts the silhouette of a girl when lit from above.

Images 6,7,&8 -
Feather,2006 ./ Light, Wood, Shadow ./ Akiru Municipal Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan
Description: The wooden object on the wall, lit from below, casts a silhouette of a figure.

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Tim Noble and Sue Webster create installations from collected piles of rubbish from London streets. A light is projected towards the piles and the shadow on the wall creates an incredible image.



Image 1 - Tim Noble and Sue Webster, HE/SHE, 2003

Image 2 - Tim Noble and Sue Webster, Real Life is Rubbish, 2002
two separate piles of general household rubbish creating a shadow self-portrait of Noble and Webster


Image 4 - Shigeo Fukuda, Lunch with a Helmet On, 1987 | 848 forks, knives, and spoons

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