Artwork
Craft
Nature
#bamboo
#bugs
#Noriyuki Saitoh
#sculpture
#wooden
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.
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
Tenodera aridifolia (Japanese big mantis) holding Auritibicen bihamatus (cicada), bamboo
Anoplophora malasiaca (citrus long-horned beetle), bamboo, 40 x 48 millimeters (antennae size: 80 millimeters)
Sinictinogomphus clavatus (golden flangetail), bamboo, 100 x 125 x 60 millimeters
Ceratocrania macra (Malaysian ghost mantis), bamboo
Cyclommatus elaphus (deer stag beetle), bamboo, bamboo paper, and blue tiger eye, 100 x 95 x 40 millimeters
Cyclommatus elaphus
#bamboo
#bugs
#Noriyuki Saitoh
#sculpture
#wooden
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