Tanada Koji red button girl Paint on wood (camphor tree), single wood-block construction
106 x 35.5 x 26 cm
41 3/4 x 14 x 10 1/4 inches

Adolescent boys and girls begin to emphasize that quality of being not yet an adult, yet already no longer a child.

There is a sense of incompleteness to humans in this state, yet as an existence, there is a pure kind of beauty in it. Their appearances seem, in this way, intermediary – they are what lies “between” man and god, nature and humanity, the individual and society; they symbolize the transcendence of all boundary lines. Theirs is a powerful existence in the midst of flux: a fleeting, flickering moment within the perpetual transformations of the process of growing up. I am trying to sense the possibilities of sculpture that exist at these “boundary lines”.

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