The Tool Discovery Time, the beginning of the first tool being discovered, this is what resonates with me. I have the cut and the smashing action, the beginning, the discovery. This time, surprise and delight and happiness, this action makes a rediscovery. Soon by the hammering action, smashing out, making the flower form come out.

With this action of the hammer on the cut end of the wood, the wood fiber comes out. This fiber is cellular. The tool in the Discovery Time they first discovered them, the first man had surprise and happiness, and it is this memory that returns.

Soon when the change of the culture using the tool, the tool was shaping forms as well as shaping culture, there was happiness and a difference. We, the homo sapiens, give body pain and that is why my back is hurting every day.

So in smashing action, this attack, together there is music .  You and I, into a rhythm. A conversation is born.

With this work, my Sensor Cell, before standing people, cells are feeling different things. It changes. These feelings are transmitted to the cells, which in turn transmit and give them back to the  people, a changed feeling.

Sensor Cell surrounds its face. Common changes continue.

Narumi Tsuneo.  Sculptor.  Aomori, Japan.  Attended the Kuwazawa Design Laboratory.  Mr. Tsuneo has been awarded an International Fellowship to Vermont Studio Center and to The Carving Studio, Vt.  His exhibitions include Iwate Insternational Stone Sculpture Symposium, Aomori Citizen Museum, INAX Gallery, and Kurasiki City.  Among his public collections are Kurashiki Natural History Museum, Carving Studio of Vermont, Johnson College - Vermont, and numerous civic commissions in Japan.

My name is Narumi Tsuneo-san. I come from the East Asian country of Japan.  I am a wood and stone-carving sculptor.

I have come to Vermont two times before. Three years before I came to the Carving Studio where I used marblestone. This time the piece I am working on the title is called Sensor Cell. It is cedar wood with cut end that with hammer I smash continuously.

In this work, one... two.... three ... the Sensor Cell multiplies continuously, the smashing action. 

In this work I am thinking wood and stick and stone, the first action of man in hand. The tool, the beginning of the first use of the tool. I have the cut end, the smashing action, the beginning, the discovery. 

Narumi Tsuneo