The Netsuke and Okimono presented in these pages, are all carved using the same techniques and tools.
Okimono (Small Sculpture)
Moose Antler_Gabon Ebony_Mammoth Tusk_Horn
5 1/2 in / 14 cm. Tall
Life and Death. caccoon and mummy
Bound like a mummy and trapped in a box of constructs of belief and structures of perception, the figure stands in a gear representing the separation from the natural world.
A dove like bird symbolizing freedom and the natural, world begins gently unwinding the gauze bindings. The bindings will only be removed to the level of a key held by a single finer of the figure, after which complete freedom and metamorphosis will be in the hands and will of the figure itself.