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Japanese visual artist Atsushi Adachi can make just about anything out
of newspaper clippings, but his most impressive works yet are a series
of miniature battleship replicas perfect to the tiniest of details.
We’ve seen people make impressive miniature models out of cardboard or
matchsticks, but Atsushi Adachi finds newspapers to be the perfect
medium. He considers them a sort of time machine, as they embody
society’s values of that certain period, so by building models of
various things using newspapers from that era, he is able to open a
window into the past.
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“I am on a quest to embed memories in ‘things’, as well as in
search of those memories,” Adachi told Otakumonde in an interview.
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The artist’s fascination with battleships, combat planes and other
military gear dates back to his childhood, when he used to visit
Self-Defense Force and American Armed Forces bases, and tried to make 3D
models of what he saw. This laid the foundation for what would
eventually become his career.
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Atsushi Adachi has exhibited his works in various galleries around the
world, but if you don’t get the chance to see them in person, you can
still check them out on his Instagram and Facebook pages.
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