YOSHIKAWA hideak

1970 . shiga prefecture. japan

YOSHIKAWA.Hideak.1928.2227-2241

For the entire 25 years that Hideaki Yoshikawa has been working at the Yamanami art studio, he has tirelessly and meticulously used wooden sticks to make small, regularly-spaced holes in clay figures. Each opening represents a mouth, eyes or nose. Some of his sculptures, which he fires using a traditional Japanese technique, have hundreds of “faces.”