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Shinji Turner-Yamamoto
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Shinji Turner-Yamamoto

BiographyMy ongoing body of work takes its name from De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), the book by Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius. "Nothing can ever be created out of nothing, even by divine power. [...] Visible objects therefore do not perish utterly, since nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death."

A waterfall, a rainbow, a fallen tree, a stone, a crystal, clay—whether virtual or physical—these materials’ provenance is essential to convey to viewers that perfect crystallized moment of stillness; and the profound depth of particularity presented by the elusive power of being totally present in nature.

Traveling to remote areas has informed my work from the beginning. In nature I experience a concord essential and integral to my artistic practice. The resultant work becomes a visual record of my experience of landscape and a conduit for connection between nature and humanity. Like sedimentary rocks, my work is created with layer on layer of memory and emotion. And like metamorphic rock, each work is morphed or altered by new connections between each stratum. Unexpected associations and epiphanies emerge, creating the whole.
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