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5 views, slowly

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The hidden world just beside this one.

Kakuriyo is the unseen realm in Shinto belief, neither beneath the living world nor above it. It exists parallel, present and adjacent, and spirits move between the two without announcement. A dark green cluster sits in a patterned cylinder, neither plant nor sculpture, neither here nor not. You sense it before you can name it.

Dimensions
Approximately 7 in wide, 11 in tall
Materials
Dense preserved sheet moss, mood moss, dried lichen, blue-pattern ceramic cylinder
Edition
One of one
Studio
Palm Springs, CA

Price

$1,000

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Local pickup in Palm Springs by default. Shipping quoted on request, sculptural work travels best when crated to its dimensions.

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The piece up close, where the texture of the wood, the lichen, and the stone become legible.

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