AKIE NAKATA

Akie is a Japanese artist who transforms stones into realistic animal paintings. By combining her hobbies of collecting rocks and animal portraiture, she creates unique pieces and gives the material a new life. The artist highlights that she never alters the natural shape or texture of a stone, yet finds it important for it to resemble an animal. Finished paintings are shared through social media in order to find them new homes.

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“Stones may fall outside our usual definition of living organisms, but when I think of the long time it takes for a stone to change from a huge boulder in the mountains to the size and shape it has, as it rests in my palm, I feel the history of the earth that the stone has silently witnessed over the millennia" - Akie for You & Art Magazine

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All images sourced through artist's social media.