Camel Country by Koichi Ogino from Japan. Granite, 2012
“Every day I am looking at the sky and the clouds. I feel the breeze. I am looking at the mountains and think about the forest, the woods and imagine the sea.” – Koichi Ogino
Bangor : Waterfront
Artist Statement
I am from Japan. I live in a small town. Every day I am looking at the sky and the clouds. I feel the breeze. I am looking at the mountains and think about the forest, the woods and imagine the sea.
It rains on the mountain, some water flows from the mountain and becomes a stream, many streams join to be the large river that flows to the sea. This water then becomes the clouds. The clouds come back to the mountains. This nature’s cycle brings us a lot of blessing.
Artist Biography
Koichi Ogino was born in Niigata, Japan. His work has been held in numerous group exhibitions in Japan and Australia including Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi seven times since 2004, Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe six times since 2007 and ‘Sculpture Rocks’ in Sydney in 2021.
He received the Grand Prize at the 8th Kobe Figurative Sculpture Exhibition in 1994 and participated in the Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium in the USA in 2012. Ogino’s work is represented in private collections internationally.