Yukie Kobayashi

I am interested in creating a visual language, which could have universal implications. For the past two years, I have been making sculpture by wrapping handmade paper mixed with human hair on aluminum wire.

The process of touching and feeling the material is very important to me and the natural fibers I use relate directly to human tissue, in that the fibers cover the wire in the same way that skin covers bone. I then bend and twist the wire to create lines that express movement.

With these recent works called "Vital Sign," my intention was to create a kind of art that relates to other aspects of human endeavor, including science, religion and philosophy. The ideas for these works came from human biorhythms.

My desire to communicate in ways other than verbal comes from the fact that I have spent half my life in Japan and half in the United States and have found from experience that art has the ability to speak in a more direct way than language.