This exhibition features over 230 small everyday items, including wooden spoons used for scooping up coffee beans, nail files, carved-out dishes, small bonito tuna flake shavers for use at the table, small wall shelves, and more.

The goal was to focus on everyday items used occasionally without much thought — the sorts of items that sit on the back of a shelf somewhere, until they’re occasionally pulled out for a few moments of use.

Alongside the items themselves, the exhibition includes an easy-to-understand look at the production process, as well as a display of the wood shavings. I hope that you will appreciate the pride inherent to these humble everyday items.

• Dates: November 2–8, 2016

• Venue: Gallery 5610 in Minami-Aoyama, Tokyo

• Items Exhibited:
– Paradise of Follies wood carvings (10 new works, 4 old works)
– 10 enlarged drawings
– 30 sketches (new works)
– 2 large-scale reliefs (new works)

• Website:
www.deska.jp/past/4929.html