Spotlighting casual scenes of daily life creates moments curiously evoking memories and treasures. The times of our lives end, fairly and unfairly, for us all. Our daily existences become most precious to us when we realize that we will someday certainly relinquish what we have. Mami Itagaki’s toso sculptures depict people lingering in such ordinary day-to-day lives. With sweet and nostalgic expressions and gestures, these characters seem to speak out to us.

(Toso sculptures are made from a clay mixture of paulownia wood powder and paste that forms a wood-like surface when dry).

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