Yuko Ikawa makes lovely togography inspired artworks. We stumbled across her exibition at the Art Space Niji Gallery in Kyoto one Sunday evening as it was closing.

The artworks shown at the exhibition were all based on topographic drawings of small Japanese Islands and are all at a scale of 1:2000. Ikawa works by tracing the contours onto plywood with carbon paper, then over the course of one day burns small holes along the contours.

She continues burning plywood until the sun goes down, repeating the images if necessary. The smaller the island the more impressions are made. In this work above, two complete impressions were made and a start on a third.

I don’t have an online source for Ikawa’s artworks, so if you are interested in Yuko’s art, then I suggest you contact Art Space Niji for more information.