Object Details
- Exhibition Label
- Teruya transforms paper bags into magical tableaus. He cuts the silhouette of a tree into one side, then bends the paper inward to seemingly take root, leaving the lacy holes above to evoke mottled sunlight. Teruya’s reuse of these discarded materials memorializes the trees in ingenious floating worlds and suggests a cycle of renewal.
- Connections: Contemporary Craft at the Renwick Gallery, 2019
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Artist
- Yuken Teruya, Japanese, born Okinawa, Japan 1973
- Date
- 2002
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Driek and Michael Zirinsky
- Copyright
- © 2002, Yuken Teruya
- Medium
- McDonald's Neverland paper bag and colored pencil
- Dimensions
- 3 1/2 × 5 3/4 × 11 in. (8.9 × 14.6 × 27.9 cm)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Crafts
