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Artwork Description

To capture the rivers of time flowing into oceans vast, the ephemeral fragments of memories borne and the tenderness of lives lost, to limn the raw power of nature and clasp in one’s hand the epic struggle between life and death; such thematic elements strike at the elegiac core of Hidenori Tsumori's (b. 1986 –) glass sculptures, encompassing the fragile remains of the day that have melted into sombre yet powerful memories in glass and clay. Like the turning of the seasons and the eternal rise and fall of the sun and moon, the passing of time embodies the inevitable cycle of life that dictates the human existence, and Tsumori's solemn sculptures represent the remnants of what has passed and what (or perhaps who?) is left behind in stark, poignant detail. Where does glass end and clay begin? And perhaps a more vexing question: where does life end and death begin? Who or what draws the divide between these two fundamentally different states of nature? A juxtaposition of seemingly antagonistic realms often reveal that things are usually two sides of the same coin. And what lies beyond Tsumori’s stalagmite-like landscapes? With a rising recognition within both realms of glass and ceramics, evidenced by his fast-growing number of public collections and awards, Tsumori’s glass sculptures acting as receptacles that catch both the life energies of Eros and that of Thanatos, the physical acquiesces to the metaphysical, and we discover a new way of shattering our very preconceptions through the unexpected marriage between glass and clay.