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Opening of Iconclasm-Jp exposition at Ada Street Gallery. London E8 

The work of young Japanese designer makers exhibited as part of  the London Design Festival 2006.

 

Yuichi Ishihara has an interest in "the relations between humans, objects, and their surroundings."

pierced plates rotated by hand to explore  Moiré patterns

Atsuchi Kitani's installation Tile explores the idea of interconnecting touch active floors covered with tiles. The tiles change colour when stepped on. They also change colour when corresponding floors in cyberspace and Tokyo are stepped on. The floors are connected to each other over the internet.

 Photographs: here the iconic railway of infrequent train. The plants grow from the ballast over the rails.

Kenichi Nakao graphic artist and photographer.

gazing into the far distance.

 

 Time clocks not to be touched but inviting the hand to explore

Jewelry inspired into the form of orrery: spirit surrounded by rings of effect: like atoms encircled  by electrons maintaining the nucleus in balanced equilibrium. 

Jewellery design by Shigemi Shirai: "..geometrical structures are given life in the motion and flexibility of their shadows.

"It is the shadows that I have designed to decorate skin and body.

With light, they appear or disappear; their very existence is spontaneous and magical."

Silver conducted in the forms of corn-dollies,