Cities at night can be exhilarating and beautiful, but such majesty is not easy to capture. Having always been captivated by Tokyo’s nighttime cityscape, Japanese artist Yukino Ohmura set about capturing the stunning imagery in an innovative way. Instead of photographing it, she opted to re-create the cityscape using thousands of colored dot stickers applied to black acrylic. Each portrait is a work of pain-staking endurance, requiring two or three weeks to complete. By juxtaposing the magnificence of a night skyline with the simplicity of ordinary stickers, Ohmura gives something that seems so huge and out of reach, just like a real skyline.
“Since these stickers are so well-known, I thought that I could make art more accessible to Japanese people by expressing metropolitan nightscapes with these materials, thereby adding a new twist to a genre,” she explained to The Verge.
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[via Verge]
