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Sweet treats and ice-cream dreams from Naoshi

05 AUG 2008 | Posted By: Katie

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Sweet treats and ice-cream dreams from Naoshi

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Naoshi's colourful, edible-looking, syrupy sweet, cute as a button artworks are only made better because of her technique. No ordinary pictures, Naoshi's creations are Sunae painting, otherwise known as sand-painting. Pretty much, she takes all differently coloured sand and arranges it into a work of art. Yeah, that's right. Sand.

The craft of sand-painting was traditionally practiced by Indigenous Australians, Tibetan monks, Indians and some Native and Latin Americans and was often attached to religious or healing ceremonies. Naoshi says that while it's an incredibly time consuming and patience testing method, the satisfaction of finishing a Sunae painting outshines any of the negatives.

Naoshi has been included in a lot of exhibitions from Japan and China to the US and France and been featured on television and magazines from Turkey to Iceland.

More at naoshii-u-iii.com and etsy.com where you can purchase a print of an original sand creation.
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There are "5" comment(s) on "Sweet treats and ice-cream dreams from Naoshi"

Respect Luke
she must be so patient. amazing work. I saw Tibetan monks creating a massive mandala on the floor once with sand... they spent weeks on it and then swept it all up when they were finished. something to do with impermanence...
Luke  -  3 years ago
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Respect freeak
Patient schmatient. This shit is creepy. It's emotionless and morbid and it makes me think of sad children.
freeak  -  3 years ago
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Member leenmachine
i appreciate the expression & intricacy. a bit bland though
leenmachine  -  3 years ago
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Advanced Member lutece
Japanese artists rock. So much patience for intricacy, detail, and originality. Audrey Kawasaki, anyone? -- ah-friking-mazing.
lutece  -  3 years ago
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Advanced Member 7DF097C9
hard work... it's a kind of naif art, I like the plain colours!
7DF097C9  -  3 years ago
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