it looks like there are 3 elements,
wood,
water,
butterfly, but in fact there is only one used in the sculpture, wood,
the scene
has been sculpted entirely from wood by Japanese artist Toru Fukuda, the
27-year old Fukuda, who was born and raised in Hokkaido, has been creating wood
sculptures since he was in high school,
the
glimmering puddles are also made from wood,
they were carved out from the base and then polished until they shined – literally,
you may think the butterfly has been painted, but nothing is further from the truth, Fukuda has been creating wood sculptures
since he was in high school, at an early age he was drawn to a technique called
wood inlay, a process that involves cutting a shaped void into a piece of wood
and then filling that void with other pieces of wood. This, for example, is how
he achieves the stunningly realistic shapes and colours of the wings of
the Neope niphonica, a butterfly found in East Asia. Put differently, no
artificial paints of any kind were used. Instead, Fukuda combined a variety of
woods including teak, ebony and mulberry, You can see
more of Fukuda’s astonishing work on his website,
or keep up with him on
Twitter, what an amazing piece of woodwork.
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