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Bugs Metamorphose from Bamboo in Noriyuki Saitoh’s Meticulous Sculptures — Colossal

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#bamboo
#bugs
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#sculpture
#wooden

August 29, 2024

Kate Mothes

Acrocinus longimanus (harlequin beetle), bamboo. All photos © Noriyuki Saitoh, shared with permission

Noriyuki Saitoh’s (beforehand) fascination with bugs and painstaking consideration to element transforms delicate items of wooden into intricate sculptures. Utilizing a variety of bamboo supplies, together with skinny paper, he rigorously carves the structure of dragonfly wings, mantis legs, and beetle antennae. Whereas primarily constituted of wooden, he generally provides different tiny supplies like stone to intensify the specimens’ eyes.

Discover an ever-growing ecosystem on Saitoh’s web site, the place he usually paperwork organic info about every animal and images their dramatic interactions.

a meticulously detailed wooden sculpture of a mantis fighting a butterfly

Left: Tenodera sinensis (Chinese language mantis), bleached bamboo, 90 x 92 x 67 millimeters. Proper: Aporia crataegi (Black-veined white), bamboo and bamboo paper, 30 x 40 millimeters

a meticulously detailed wooden sculpture of a mantis holding up a cicada in its arms

Tenodera aridifolia (Japanese big mantis) holding Auritibicen bihamatus (cicada), bamboo

a meticulously detailed wooden sculpture of a long-horned beetle with very long antennae

Anoplophora malasiaca (citrus long-horned beetle), bamboo, 40 x 48 millimeters (antennae size: 80 millimeters)

a meticulously detailed wooden sculpture of a dragonfly perched on someone's finger

Sinictinogomphus clavatus (golden flangetail), bamboo, 100 x 125 x 60 millimeters

a meticulously detailed wooden sculpture of a mantis, shown upright on its hind legs in front of a white background

Ceratocrania macra (Malaysian ghost mantis), bamboo

a meticulously detailed wooden sculpture of a horned beetle

Cyclommatus elaphus (deer stag beetle), bamboo, bamboo paper, and blue tiger eye, 100 x 95 x 40 millimeters

a meticulously detailed wooden sculpture of a horned beetle, photographed in someone's hand

Cyclommatus elaphus

#bamboo
#bugs
#Noriyuki Saitoh
#sculpture
#wooden

 

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