Kanemaki is a Japanese fine artist who specialises in sculpture, often using wooden carving techniques. He uses an equal balance of bones and living humans combined in his sculptures, which portray the questions of 'what is life?' and 'what is death?'. The idea of centring a piece of work around ideas of death and the role it has on people is what makes pieces like Kanemaki's eerily disturbing.The way that the skeleton is hanging over the boy makes it seem as though death is looming over him, and the way that you cannot see his eyes, and only see a blank expression on his mouth also adds to the disturbing connotations that Kanemaki's work has.
The actual style of carved wood and paint makes the sculptures seem realistic, as well as almost cartoon-like, which relates to my own style of work.
