Yoshino Cherry Project
This multimedia Installation "Yoshino Cherry" is created for the Grantham Art Prize 2018. For this installation, Michiko has teamed up with Dr Kris Murray and Sonia Tiedt from Imperial College London whose research looks at how global changes, such as climate, can alter the distribution of species.
Yoshino-Cherry Tree, 2019, mixed media( hanging objects and projection), 1.45 x 2.5 x 1.8 m
Yoshino-Cherry Tree (Video 1)
2019, mixed media( hanging objects and projection), 1.45 x 2.5 x 1.8 m
The Yoshino cherry tree is widely known as the most common of all cherry trees in Japan and across the world, including in Washington, USA. However, what most people don’t know is that these iconic trees are in fact all clones and therefore highly vulnerable to new diseases and changes to insect populations that result from climate change. Through this multimedia installation, Yamamoto seeks to raise awareness of the importance of plant biodiversity and international cooperation in the fight against climate change.
Yoshino-Cherry Tree ( Video2)
2019, mixed media ( hanging objects and projection), 1.45 x 2.5 x 1.8 m
This section include, Mike Olbinski's storm images
In this mini-theater like installation, the moving images of weather phenomena and other issue caused by climate change are projected onto laser-cut wooden cherry blossoms which are hanged from the top. The burned smell from the laser-cut wood pieces creates the atmosphere of global warming as an impact of climate change. The hand-printed book is made from a series of woodcuts using both laser-cut and hand-cut plywood boards. It illustrates how these trees are cloned and planted after the end of the Second World War on the burnt-out areas of Japan, the concerns for their present decline and the importance of biodiversity.
Yoshino-Cherry Tree, 2019, mixed media( hanging objects and projection), 1.45 x 2.5 x 1.8 m
Yoshino Cherry, 2019, Woodblock Print book (Page10), 21cm x 27 cm
This book is also the commissioned work for the Grantham Art Prize 2018 launched by Imperial college and the Royal College Art. I collaborated with Dr Kris Murray and Sonia Tiedt at Grantham Institute Climate Change and the Environment.
The traditional hand-printed book is made from a series of both laser-cut and hand-cut plywood boards. It illustrates how these trees were cloned and planted in the burnt-out areas of Japan after the Second World War, and concerns for their present decline.
Yoshino Cherry, 2019, Woodblock Print book (Page 6), 21cm x 27 cm
Yoshino Cherry, 2019, Woodblock Print book (Page 8), 21cm x 27 cm