Photo: Keizo Kioku, courtesy of Art Front Gallery
Artist Reconstructs Stone Sculptures With Stunning Strips of Glass Slicing Through Them
Artist Ramon Todo breathes new life into stone sculptures and simultaneously celebrates the use of contrasting materials. His Stone Series features the use of unique rocks—including obsidian, volcanic rock, fossils, debris, and rocks from historical sites—all carefully selected to tell different stories about time and place. These stones are split and reattached with bluish glass layers—ranging in thickness and size—that diffuse light and allow us to see through each piece. They are like windows into the soul of these stones that have laid in various locales, witnessing history.
“wM260871 (2018)” (Photo: courtesy of Art Front Gallery)
“Motoori Norinaga by Hideo Kobayashi (2019)” (Photo: courtesy of Art Front Gallery)
“Debris – 267703 (2016)” (Photo: courtesy of Art Front Gallery)