Junko Mori (森 純子 Mori Junko) is a Japanese metalworker.
She was born in Yokohama, Japan in 1974. She graduated in from Musashino Art University in Tokyo in 1997 with her first BA in three-dimensional design.

Mori then worked as a welder in a factory for one year. From 1998 to 2000,

she studied silversmithing and metalwork at Camberwell College of Arts in London.

Mori then spent two years as artist-in-residence at Liverpool Hope University.
Her work consists of many hand-forged pieces joined together in a form that is both organic and minimalist.

“I am always drawn to the visual impact of an aggregate assembled with many small components and find infinite possibilities of the form multiplied by the vital power beyond the physical space, such as cell division through a microscope.

My work consists of multiples of individually forged steel or other metals, and the subtle difference of each piece results from hand hammering. No piece is individually planned but becomes fully formed within the making and thinking process. Repeating little accidents, like a mutation of cells, the final accumulation of units emerges within this process of evolution.

The uncontrollable beauty is the core of my concept“

나는 항상 많은 양의 작은 요소가 결합된 시각적 충격(자극)에 끌린다.

 그리고 세포 분열과 같이 물리적 공간을 넘어 존재하는 생명력에 의해 증식되는

무한한 형태의 가능성을 찾으려한다.
나의 작업은 개별적으로 연마된 철과 다른 금속들로 이루어져있다.
이 부품들의 미세한 차이는 손 망치질에 의한 것인데 작은 우연들은 마치 돌연변이 세포처럼

각 유닛의 축적물은 진화의 과정에서 나타난다.
통제 할 수 없는 아름다움이 내 개념의 핵심이다

 사진 출처 - www.gogle.com

글 - http://www.junkomori.com