Pixcell

I found an excellent piece of text that gives great insight into Kohei Nawa's Pixcell series:

"He is best known for his ideas of ’skin’ and ‘cells’ encapsulated under the pixcell series. The ’skins’ of objects such as taxidermied animals, sneakers, musical instruments, toys and fake fruit taking on new phases. Countless transparent glass beads encase these objects, forming a new interface between these things and us. the glass beads are ‘cells’ that skew our tactile memories and conventional visual notions we have of these objects. Beads of glass are affixed to and mediate objects. Motifs used for the sculptures are gathered from the internet. entering specific keywords in the search engine results in the display of a myriad of unexpected related images. They cover the surface of these motifs with transparent spheres transforming them into ’shells of light’. Layers of countless ‘cells’ alter the texture and color of the original object, dissolving it into a pixelated image converted and saved into a sculptural format -’pixcell’ – a re-assemblage of element of image."