Aoi Kotsuhiroi

[brad1981]

depends on the wearers

[Crowzer]

Aoi Kotsuhiroi's stuff is really incredible. It's kind of things you bought it to put in a window at home.

[MJRH]

here's a little more info on this designer

"Kotsuhiroi is also the photographer, poet and model behind these creations" (coilhouse)

and from this article:

Similarly Aoi Kotsuhiroi presents the foot in her shoes, but uses a mix of shiny and distressed Urushi to further exaggerate the inherent natural beauty of the foot by blurring the boundary between body and shoe.

Aoi is also a student of Kinbaku (Japanese rope bondage) and this too provides a means for her to closely integrate the heel with the foot, ankle and leg. But rather than assuming that this is done to capture and subdue, in Japan this knot work is done to present the subject as a work of art in the same sensitive fashion as flower arrangement.

It is not an act of domination, but a mutual poetic embrace – as one of the masters of the art and key influence on Aoi, Nobuyoshi Araki has said “I only tie up a woman’s body because I cannot tie up her heart”

[garbage_queen]

...to start - bracelet...

[garbage_queen]

...some leather jacket details...

[mortalveneer]

I'd quite love to see full photos of the jacket.

[KarissmaYve]

I am a long admirer of Aoi. She has such an intimate relationship with the creation of her objects and the materials she uses. I believe that she views these objects as merely objects and a vehicle of articulating thought. So I deeply connect with her method of creation, embodying the ritualistic. And in a ritualistic sense (using the lunar cycles as the calendar for creation), I create in a very similar light of processes.

"I was like a mistake, a wild animal with no feathers, with different lifetimes. I closed my eyes to see the rain waking up. Handfuls of earth to hold oblivion."



INSTALLATION from ‘NOTHING BUT WORDS TO LEARN TO LIE’ poem.
ONE-OFF piece (with skull).
Limited edition of 8 pieces (bag only) in night or blood color.
Entirely handmade (no machines) by AOI KOTSUHIROI.

Medium: Skull: Ashes, animal glues, urushi lacquer (tree sap), dust, stone powder, wood dust, bison leather, horn (teeth), linen, unknown substances...
Bag: American bison leather handsewn with waxed linen thread, urushi lacquer, lined with plongé lamb leather or hand felted merino wool.
Dimensions: 15,5 x 19 x 4 cm or 6 x 7,5 x 1,6 inches.
Color: black.

via AOI KOTSUHIROI

[Faust]

I agree, she's really fascinating. I think anyone who manages to live in their own world in this day and age is fascinating.

[KarissmaYve]

I agree, she's really fascinating. I think anyone who manages to live in their own world in this day and age is fascinating.

ABSOLUTELY FASCINATING.. My objective in life (at this very moment) is to create the world that I wish to live in. Aoi, does this so effortlessly.

[Faust]

I don't know if her process is effortless. I would imagine it is actually the opposite of! But the results certainly speak for themselves. Her shoe at the FIT Museum exhibit on footwear is probably the most interesting object there.

[KarissmaYve]

Effortless in terms of 'world building' here. The amount of detail and level of craftsmanship in her objects entail an immense amount of effort I'd imagine. No doubt about that!

I was referring to how she 'seamlessly' builds this world of hers. Perhaps, effortless isn't the correct term for what I getting at. When I view her work I see this world of hers, I don't have to strain to understand her aesthetic. She provides an array of tools necessary for us to see...

but what do I know!

[Faust]

Aoi Kotsuhiroi's new work at Musee des Arts Decoratifs

[garbage_queen]

My friend in my Aoi masks!

[mortalveneer]

A site update worthy of a bump, perhaps.

http://www.aoikotsuhiroi.com/Letters.html

[Macabre]

My friend in my Aoi masks!

Garbage queen, I stared at that image for a solid 2-3 minutes and I've come to the conclusion that I love everything about that picture, absolutely every last detail. He looks like some kind of urban dark shaman to me.

Incredibly cool.