Motoi Yamamoto creates vast and detailed installations with salt that depict systems and labyrinths. After his sister died from brain cancer, he started to work with salt because of its ties to death (and funeral customs) in Japan. With that in mind, the installations can take on meanings of decay and memory.
With or without knowledge of the ideas behind and installation like this, the size and detail just has an automatic impact. The physical presence of large-scale work is something I love.
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