The Japanese artist Keiko Yamamoto explores the process, craft and skill of textile sculpturing in contemporary art. Her goal is to create work based on the conceptual theme of volume presence. She investigates experimenting with structure, texture and new possibilities to work with fabric in the process. Keiko Yamamoto is a textile sculpturing artist in a continuous search for her own and ultimate personal world.
Keiko explores the imaginative use of layering swatches of fabric that will create the basic ingredients for creating evocative three-dimensional textile artworks. Keiko is fascinated by the creation of layering fabrics, without cutting or using thread after layering. By concept, the fabric represents time and the mass of overlapping fabrics represents the present for Keiko. The fabric is thin and soft, but when layered, it thickens and becomes one mass. By layering the fabric and leaving it as a form, she expresses the lapse of time she lived and the passing present. She creates to explore life and to confirm that she is alive and conscious of her existence. Keiko continuously investigates resources and references for the experiment. Her focus is firmly based on the conceptual values of her processes and without losing touch with the overall project she is working on.
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