Yamamoto’s work borrows from traditional Hindu and Buddhist meditation mandalas—which are created as a form of meditation and swept away shortly after completion—and they have an incredibly short shelf life. A piece begins when Yamamoto sits down, usually on a gallery floor, and begins to draw using a bottle of salt that functions as a pen. This phase can take weeks, and the public is often invited to watch him work. He stops working when the exhibition opens officially, and when it closes, he invites the public back—this time, to help him sweep up the salt and deposit it back into the ocean.
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Return to the Sea, Saltworks by Motoi Yamamoto from Monterey Museum of Art on Vimeo.
