Some aspects of Yoshitoshi Kanemaki¡¯s wooden sculptures are ordinary ¡ª the women¡¯s faces look like those you might see on your commute. But these figures also have dozens of eyes, cascading faces and extra fingers.
That is not an error. Kanemaki has set out to capture ambivalence, instability and psychological turmoil in his ongoing series ¡°Prism.¡±
¡°I want to express the complexity of human emotion,¡± Kanemaki says. ¡°There is a person who appears normal on the surface, and then the hidden self is actually something else underneath.¡±
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