Artist: Makoto Nakamura

Wind and Wave
(gouache drawing, 515 x 728 mm, 1993)




Forest of Memory
(gouache drawing, 650 x 920 mm, 1994)
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I think that a tessellation is a new way to express ideograms rather than merely a way to express optical illusions. The tessellation involves various conflicting concepts. I have created several works that comprehend the world using tessellations, expressing scenes of a dense ecosystem encompassing the forests and the sea.

"Layered three-dimensional tessellation - Pegasus" is a stereographic trial. The present purpose is to produce a sculptured work and 3-D animation. It was the Homeric hero Odysseus, who fought the Cyclops, had used this name, and had put out the monster's eye. I imagine that this poster is nothing else but Odysseus' gesture: some kind of attack upon the eye.



Pegasus - layered 3D tessellation
(computer graphics, 1998)
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All artwork ©Makoto Nakamura.

Makoto Nakamura,
3-11-4 Kamata Otaku,
Tokyo,
Japan.
E-mail: mnaka@isnet.ne.jp
Website: http://www18.big.or.jp/~mnaka/home.index.html;



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