Dreams and Memories Form and Dissipate in Tomohiro Inaba’s Delicate Iron Sculptures

In Tomohiro Inaba’s intimate metal sculptures, majestic animals and gentle humans are the stuff of dreams and fairytales. As if scribbled energetically in 3D, delicate lines of iron transition the solid forms of deer, foxes, or sheep into thin air—what Inaba calls the “gradient to blank.” Yet this emptiness takes on a life of its own, spinning a sense of mystery and inviting the viewer to question what forces might be causing it or where the boundary lies between presence and absence. More

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