Motoi Yamamoto
has to be the most patient man in the world. A Japanese artist,
Yamamoto uses salt to create monumental floor paintings, each so
absurdly detailed, it makes
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte look like child's play. He calls them, fittingly, his Labyrinths.
Yamamoto's latest labyrinth creeps out from a brick tunnel at the
Fondation Espace Ecureuil,
a gallery in France. He made it -- as he makes all these installations
-- by sprinkling salt on the floor through a plastic bottle used for
machine oil, starting at the back of the tunnel, then moving forward to
avoid stepping on the designs he's already drawn. The whole thing took
50 hours over the course of five days and a whopping
2,200 pounds of salt.
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