Giving wintry landscapes a colourful makeover with a Snow Pallet

Date
10 December 2012

Are you dreaming of a white Christmas? Well, we all know the news will be reporting it as though death is falling from above at the glimpse of a spattering (with the nation’s attention refocused on the levels of grit!) but mainly there is total love for snow right? It is, after all, basically the daddy of fun. And Japanese artist Toshihko Shibya is making this ice cool powder-puff fluff even cooler with his Snow Pallet installation. Toshihko’s aim is to transform some of the plain looking landscapes wintry weather can create, injecting some fun and personality into places otherwise visually barren. Like most brilliant ideas, Snow Palletis a remarkably simple concept – Toshihko paints iron disks in a variety of colours, placing them at differing heights from the ground. As natural light enables the colour hues to reflect off the snows surface, a gradient of colour presents itself amid the whitewashed landscape. The results are as beautiful as they are reliant on natures forces.

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Toshihiko Shibuya: Snow Pallet 2012
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Toshihiko Shibuya: Snow Pallet 2012
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Toshihiko Shibuya: Snow Pallet 2012
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Snow Pallet installation (2011): Photography by Nanami Kawamura

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