Makoto Tojiki

 

    Lights, color, action! That is the major ingredients presented in Tojiki artwork. Makoto Tojiki, a graduate of industrial design engineering in 1998 from Kinki University, is an artist and designer who use lights and familiar shapes as his primary medium of expression. Tojiki wanted to explore the use of light as it applied to function and intended use. Tojiki quoted “I hope the message I convey in a product changes the way people look at things, and I continue to make loving products that will bring a smile to people's faces when they find my message.”
    His most recent series “No Shadow" series is stimulated by the shadow and of light and can be shaped into a compound shape. The materials used on display are LED threads.

Website:

http://www.makototojiki.com

    Works included: "Man with No Shadow" It consists of LED lights at the ends of wires of different lengths suspended from the ceiling. This piece was displayed debut in Milan at the international design festival Salon Satellite.  The artist makes good with the use of the armature of line to give shape and volume to the object.  The subject is a statue of a man in a front potion which very selective to realism in terms of tone, gravity, weight, and symmetry.  It’s very interesting as the view can’t get a clear present ion of the shape from up close but must walk to a distance to see the overall design. The row of dots forms a single montage of shape which is placed in portion to the depth of the figure (close together or far apart). 

       

·         Tojiki doesn’t just apply this material to the human body but also to other animated forms for example; "Horse with No Shadow" and "The Blue Bird “both displayed in 2009.

 

In 2008 Tojiki took space, form, color, and balance to a piece he entitled’ Photon”or " See the Floating.”