Naho Iino “Flowers of Time”
I visited Naho Iino’s solo exhibition “Flowers of Time.”
The venue is POLA MUSEUM ANNEX.
Naho Iino’s engagement with glass began when a work she made in elementary school — glass marbles bonded together with epoxy adhesive — was selected for a craft exhibition in Tokyo. She later graduated from Musashino Art University, studied at the Pilchuck Glass School in Seattle, and then established “Naho Iino Glass Garden.” Since 1997, she has centered her practice on solo exhibitions.
Every one of Iino’s works is hand-blown, combining the delicate quality inherent to glass with the warmth born of handwork. The title “Flowers of Time” comes from an old expression meaning a flower that blooms at the height of its own moment. It carries Iino’s belief that all things are continually changing, never staying in one place, and that she sees herself reflected in the flower that blooms with all its might in each passing instant.
I came away soothed by the warmth of her work.
