Born in 1973 in Saitama. MASUDA has been making various snow sculptures with colleagues in Naeba since 2011 and started to use a bicycle for transportation in order to avoid traffic jams as well as to conduct environmental research from around 2012. Masuda worked with a sculptor FURUGORI Hiroshi to create an artwork during Setouchi Triennale 2016. In 2019 Masuda set a theme “bowl shape” for his works and launched a project called “small pond” in which he creates spoons and bowls from pruned wood using non-electrical hand tools and sells them as he travels on bicycle. He makes these works with an axe in the corner of a small bookstore on a street while also working on architectural design. Four generations live under the same roof and spoons he makes are used by his grandmother and daughter who can’t use chopsticks.
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