𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟑𝐫𝐝 𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐈 𝐁𝐀𝐌𝐁𝐎𝐎 𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐙𝐄

SHIMIZU Yūki (born 1994, Iwate)

Shō “Crystal”

Ajiro-ami, twill plaiting

Trained in science and engineering before joining the Ōita Prefectural Bamboo Craft Training Center and later the studio of Tanabe Chikuunsai IV, Shimizu Yūki approaches bamboo with the mindset of a builder.

Inspired by the adaptive strategies of living forms, he conceives Shō as a form in mutation, gradually crystallized. The ajiro-ami plaiting becomes a vocabulary of facets, capturing light and cutting shadow. Constructed like an open architecture, the work brings together solids and voids, angles and curves, within a taut geometry where technical rigor becomes inner energy.