IWAMI

BLOSSOMING CHERRY BRACH
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This Branch was carved from the African wild boar tusk, 12 cm, stained with Walnut ink, the Japanese characters were done with burning needle! :) The haiku can be translated so: Samazama no... Myriads of things past Koto omoidasu... Are brought to my mind - Sakura kana... These cherry blossoms! or so: How many, many things They bring to mind-- Cherry blossoms! Tatiana Nikolova and her friend, Tomoko Watanabe (the teacher of Japanese language and Literature) helped me a lot with the final design and searching this Haiku, with Japanese language and the grammar rules! I thank them both very much! 2008. China, the private collection.
FEATHER AND DEW
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The feather was carved from mammoth tusk, the length is 6.3 cm, the dew-drop was carved from acryl glass. 2006 USA, the private collection.
PETAL OF IRIS AND BUTTERFLY
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The petal of Iris with butterfly were carved from mammoth tusk, its size is 5.6 cm, the butterfly was stained with walnut dye, silver nitrate and burning needle. Two dew-drops were carved from two different acryl glass. The beetle was carved from mammoth and dark-brow shell, mammoth was covered silver nitrate. The signature was carved on the reverse side, covered gold leaf 23K and over it was inlaid the dew-drop. January 2007. USA, private collection

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