A lifetime of education under some of bamboo art’s most experienced masters has given Yuichi some big shoes to fill, but he has devoted himself to presenting a cohesive body of work which affirms his unique voice in the continued development of the art form.
He gathers together hundreds of strips of carefully split bamboo and wrests them into flowing compositions. The controlled irregularity of the fallen pine needle plaiting is energetic and organic, evoking natural imagery, like the beating of a bird’s wings.
“The straight form of bamboo is deeply appealing to me as an art medium. When I cut into a culm of bamboo and it splits exactly in half, my heart is in each part. The preparation of the material really dictates the outcome of the artwork.“
