SAKI CHIKARAISHI “KNIT THE WORLD”

NEWSText: Aya Shomura

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Hyper Knit Creator, Saki Chikaraishi‘s first book “Knit the World” was issued. Unveiling the inside of a unique artist who has been knitted trees on street, electric poles, billboards, benches, headphones, onions and people whom she met in Japan and overseas.

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While keeping the word “continuation for 10 years makes one come out” by teachers in herself, she has been knitted insatiably for 12 years. It this book, she wrote about the origin of her title “Hyper Knit Creator”, the artist barrier that untold usually, projects as her lifework and the latest work “Back To The Fiber: Paper Landscape”. One book makes us draw in her world with a lot of photos.

Saki Chikaraishi Book “Knit the World”
Outline: Monograph, A5 size, Japanese language, softcover, 143 pages
Price: 1,500 yen (excluding tax)
Date of issue: March 9th 2016
Publisher: Yosensya Publishing Co.Ltd.
ISBN-13: 978-4800308641

Text: Aya Shomura

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