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Kazumi Tanaka
Sunflower - Himawari
Kazumi Tanaka (b. 1962, Osaka, Japan) lives and works in Beacon, New York, United States. Sunflower – Himawari is a 16 foot-tall bronze sunflower rendered with a grayscale patina and a black horsehair center. The work is inspired by two elements of a moment in the artist’s life when she moved to NYC: two sunflower andirons designed by Thomas Jeckyll that she was restoring while reading Oliver Sacks’ book The Case of the Colorblind Painter.
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