At first glance, what Onishi Yasuaki has created appears to be an immense spider web, but in reality it is a handmade installation containing 3 types of materials: tree branches, hot silicone and crystallized urea, a material very often used in the chemical industry. The installation was named “Vertical Emptiness”.
Known for his installations made from plastic membranes, suspended in the air with the help of hot black silicone, the Japanese artist decided to approach a different concept with his latest work, “Vertical Emptiness”, “Vertical Emptiness”.
Onishi Yasuaki started by creating a mesh structure out of tree branches, which would hang from the ceiling. He then poured hot silicone through it. The silicone clung, dripping and becoming a vertical connector between the floor and the ceiling. He applied crystallized urea over the glue and the tree branches, and all this formed a kind of "landscape".
Empty spaces are filled using gravitational force, action, heat and crystallization.
The installation made from tree branches with silicone and crystallized urea frames a unique and interesting concept to look at and analyze. The entire "landscape" looks like a winter scene, as if snowflakes were connecting and interacting between the floor and the ceiling.
Source photo: thisiscolossal.com
