TAKUMI YASUDA

 
Rectangular piece of yarn embroidery on cloth. Features 5 vertical bands of blue, each band down being a darker blue. 3 simple planes embroidered on with wheels, & propellers or rotor blades.

Biography

Takumi Yasuda was born in 1994 with severe hearing loss and a visual impairment in one eye. He attended a school for the deaf in Saitama Prefecture, and in 2012, entered the Kobosyu studio Monday to Fridays. He has been inspired by others in the studio to try machine weaving, drawing, and woodcarving, but always comes back to stitch as his main art form. He embroiders various scenes from his own experiences and memories, sewing repetitively on each piece. While mastering the use of threads to create colours that blend like oil paint, he embroiders lines with a unique touch, taking up to a year to complete one piece. To-date, only five embroidered works exist. Yasuda also knits at his group home, preferring to continuously knit long scroll-like objects.

 
 
A young light brown skinned man stands in a white top against a white backdrop with red letters saying USA on the top. He has dark floppy hair to his ears, and a patch over his right eye in white.

Takumi Yasuda

Works

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Selected Exhibitions

2017 Ufu Saitama Only Got This Thing Done, The 8th Saitama Prefectural Art Exhibition for Persons with Disabilities, Saitama Museum of Modern Art, Japan
2015 Discover You Too, The 6th Saitama Prefectural Art Exhibition for Persons with Disabilities, Saitama Museum of Modern Art, Japan
2014 Ugh, what's going on with this!? Ehhhh This is what I did! Unconditional Happiness, Saitama Kaikan, Saitama, Japan