Vibrant Centimeter-Wide Paper Cranes by Artist Naoki Onogawa Engulf Bonsai Trees
All photographs © Naoki Onogawa, shared with permission
Tokyo-based artist Naoki Onogawa (beforehand) continues his meditative observe involving hundreds of minuscule paper cranes. Hooked up in clusters to the branches of bonsai timber, the tiny birds perch instead of leaves and prime the sculptural specimens with fantastically coloured canopies. Onogawa painstakingly folds a sq., centimeter-wide piece of paper into the origami cranes, which as soon as amassed in massive teams, symbolize everlasting luck.
The artist is at the moment making ready for reveals this fall at Picaresque Art Gallery and TENMAYA in each Okayama and Fukuyama and just lately opened his books for worldwide commissions. Head to Instagram to dive into his course of and keep up-to-date on new works.
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