マスタニ メイ
MASUTANI May
Plane 2.1
Plane 2.1
ガラス
Glass
2024
Photo: Koya Yamashiro
ARTIST INFORMATION
シンガポール生まれ、富山県在住ガラス作家マスタニメイ。
私の表現は人間性、潜在意識の狭間にあるものに焦点を当てている。言葉では表現できない感情をガラスの透明感で繋げていく。ガラスは無機質な元素で構成されているが、狭間に想いを繋げば有機質な存在になると想う。
ガラスならではの光と影、隂と陽、その釣り合いを大切に造形している。
忘れてしまった泡沫の記憶を思い出すかのように、その予兆が訪れる事を願う。(作家)
Masutani May is an artist from Singapore living in Toyama, Japan.
May uses glass to convey the ephemeral and transient quality of moments between people and their interactions with the surrounding environment. There is an underlying theme concerning human nature and the subconscious mind in her work. Although a seeming nothingness, she views it as a place of transition where things simultaneously come into existence and ceases to be. She sees this as a silent and unspoken communication that happens between individuals and comprehensively in the natural world. She has a notion that people possess an imperceptible aura that serves as a shared, mutually understood language.
May employs minimalistic forms which are both balanced and dynamic, with internal structures continually transmuting as the viewer moves around the work. The subtle hint offered through this optical play represents the intermediate space that is ever shifting, constant in its changing.