Asia
Takahiro Iwasaki
Tectonic Model
2010

Tectonic Model
Takahiro Iwasaki’s Tectonic Model is made from a number of leather-bound books piled up in different formations that resemble architecture on top of a sawhorse desk. Tiny cranes of about ten centimeters in height are attached to the top of the books, which have their tassels laid out. The intricately balanced arrangements, with some books standing free and upright, give the impression that the cranes might have stacked the books themselves by lifting the tassels. It is as though an autonomous, self-regulating system created and animated itself without human intervention atop the desk.
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