Shadow magic.

This artist called Kumi Yamashita has used the nature of light to produce her artworks on walls. Now, we all know that light travels in a straight line. When it hits any object that is in its way, the light is blocked and tada! It creates a shadow. Yamashita creatively used this principle to make these following artworks. Take a look!

Looks like just a bunch of post-it notes stuck on a wall. Nothing special there. But I was so wrong.

And if looked closer to each of the papers and its shadow, not one face is the same.

The alphabets are scattered, but their shadows are joined beautifully!

Light from a different angle. Shadow of a different story.

 A different angle again.

My personal favourite among her works. Isn't is just so eerily beautiful?

Not only must the papers cut out be exact, but the light source must be right too. The two important parts completing each other so perfectly to portray the shadow the artist wanted. And the artist had to get them just right. 

Shadows are something so connected to us, but yet intangible. It can never depict any facial emotions, it can never be felt in any form. So then why does these artworks gives off a feel of real human being present in them, when there aren't any? 

I believe it is simply because the shadows are shadows of common people. They're not especially dramatic. Some maybe are even what happened in our lives before. Close to our hearts in a way :) The artworks are just so simple and straightforward, serves to inspire very directly as well. It also implies that everything in life is pretty simple, open up your eyes, look with a different perspective, and there can be so much beauty in it.

Photos taken from http://www.kumiyamashita.com/ on 28 June 2012