Day 1654: Wanted: creativity and patience.

"Terry", black gesso, watercolor, acrylic & collage on Thomas Guide

Today I borrowed from here ...

With a little bit of creativity & patience, 

a household item can be art.

 

For Shunsuke Tani, a young biologist, who had 

spare change lying around, it became a passion.

Tani primarily uses 1 and 5 yen coins, & occasionally

foreign coins, to create stunning, gravity-defying sculptures 

that, at any moment, look like the could come tumbling down.

It takes hours of time and patience required for assembly.

630 yen worth of 1 yen coins

Tani (@thumb_tani) posts to his twitter account(via My Modern Met)

where he often shares how much time 

each sculpture took to create (usually 2 – 3 hours). 

  

He also adds some  humor like “I have no other skills in life, 

other than this” or “I sacrificed 2 hours of my life.”

Tani originally began stacking coins about 4 years ago.

Inspiration came from stacking a 10 & 1 yen coin at the time. 

Tani’s art is a testament to the fact that 

even the simple & ordinary can be honed to perfection.

Thanks again to Shunsuke Tani and...

A smile for Saturday ...