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“Artificial Nature: Flora” combines a range of forms and expressions to unearth sensory and emotional aspects of experience. Drawing from Nobuhito Nishigawara’s immigrant experience, this series of works explores the dual cultural forces of Japan and North America that shape his relationship to identity. From his childhood in Japan to moving to North America to attend school as a young man, he recalls suppressing emotions in order to fit in. Through this work, Nishigawara creates a framework for expression from which the natural material qualities of the sculptures are shaped and define the …