HomeNewsArt & Design • Current PageFebruary 9th, 2012

Shadow People
By Athina Ibrahim, March 3, 2010 · 475 views

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There’s something quite haunting about one’s shadow, it may appear as a reflection of you, but if it was a living entity, it’d probably go on its own trail after the light of day has subsided. As the works of Kumi Yamashita, she uses smart visual effects to create an illusion of shadows in her artwork. Firstly, she uses mundane objects as wood or metal scattered randomly without order, at first glance you would somewhat question the aesthetics behind it. But everything comes together when light is cast over the objects revealing a silhouette of people. It forms an illusion of reality as you come to understand that the objects become a symbolic part of the shadow.

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