Kohei Nawa encases taxidermied animals in thousands of glass spheres
By covering creatures like elk and sheep in transparent beads, the Japanese artist transforms biological forms into a physical representation of digital pixels.
In 2002, Japanese artist Kohei Nawa began a series of sculptures that challenge how the human eye perceives physical reality in a digital age. His PixCell series involves taking found objects or taxidermied animals, such as a large elk or a sheep, and completely encasing their surfaces in thousands of transparent spheres of varying sizes. This process effectively replaces the animal's skin or fur with a shimmering, cellular membrane.
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