@@ I started my career as a jeweler, but I knew that jewels were not good enough @@ for me to express my own. I, then, went to Italy in order to find some objects @@ which are more difficult to be expressed, and some way to express my own. @@ In Italy, I came across the forging Iron@formative art as if I had been guided @@ by something. @@ I saw well-forged Iron@things, Iron lattices and some hundred-years-old door @@ gates everywhere in any towns @@ The Iron products were corroded by rust and had quite inner glow and felt good. @@ They looked so delicate, so heavy and rhythmical. @@ They were much different from Japanese cast things like doors. @@ They did not live but were given life by men, which impression began to attract me. @@ I went to the Palermo island in the south part of Italy, and then went to Rome, @@ Firenze and Venice. In Venice I began to make a living. @@ I, then, got to know a sculptor, Toni Benetton, and learned from him the forging @@ Iron@formative art with which we could make the most of@Iron. @@ Works of the forging Iron@formative art must be handmade ones, and when @@ making the works, it is most important to spend time, pay attention to, and @@ make the most of Iron@With unchanging techniques and strong will, Italian have @@ given life to Iron things living for some hundred or some thousand years. @@ Italian have had hearts to put a high value to their techniques and tradition, @@ given life to Iron things living for some hundred or some thousand years.and to @@ love their families. @@ They all thought it most important to live happily and pleasantly every day. @@ I had learned many things from Toni Benetton and other Italian friends, and @@ came back to Japan. @@ After having come back to Japan, I immediately began to make tools for new @@ works and was after some Iron things to be rusty. @@ I made rusty Iron into some works. Some were classical doors and lattices @@ designed on the model of nuts and plants in west European style. The others are @@ objects with themes of organizations, families and human faces. @@@ @@@@@@@Forging@Iron@Formative@Art @@ I get Iron heated enough to be about to be melted in a forge with cokes. @@ I, then, forge and cut the melting iron into objects with a hammer and a graver. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @Forging@Iron@Formative@Art @ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @@@Masayuki@Takazawa
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