Artist & toymaker at @basticplastic
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Joined November 2020
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Making toys is a difficult task.
Kickstarter is up for 2 more days.
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Go check out the new project on kickstarter!
Any support keeps this thing going.
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日本の皆さん！🇯🇵 3月にまた大阪へ行きます！
ソフビ好きの皆さんや、アーティスト、ショップ、ギャラリーの方々ともっと交流できたら嬉しいです！
ポップアップや展示など、一緒に何か面白いことができたら最高ですね！
興味のある方はぜひDMください！✌️
Go check out the new project on kickstarter!
Any support keeps this thing going.
kickstarter.com/projects/nei…
What is Sofubi? And what makes someone a toy artist instead of an artist by proxy?
I think people are confused because access to production has become confused with understanding the medium.
Social media and easier access to factories have demystified production. That’s mostly a good thing.
But access to production used to come after years of collecting, making, studying and participating in the culture.
Now it can be the first step.
Sofubi isn’t just PVC poured into a mold in Japan.
It has a history, a material language, and a particular way objects are engineered, pulled, assembled, painted, handled and played with.
If it’s slush cast in Japan, China, or America it’s still Sofubi. Sofubi is a process.
That doesn’t make the object invalid. And outsourcing doesn’t automatically make someone less of an artist.
Toy making has always involved specialized craftspeople.
But there’s a difference between designing an object and practicing a craft.
Today you can send a drawing to a factory, have someone else sculpt it, manufacture it, paint it, package it, and end up with a “Sofubi toy” without ever really learning how toys are made.
大阪のイベント @sofuvicon に集まってくださった素晴らしい日本の皆さんに感謝します。おかげで今回の旅が特別なものになりましたし、本当に嬉しかったです。
大阪のトイコレクター＆アーティストの皆さん！
9月20日〜28日、@sofuvicon のために大阪に行きます！
一緒にソフビを見に行ったり、ご飯を食べたりできたら嬉しいです！
ぜひメッセージしてください。大阪で遊びましょう！🙌🇯🇵