Wooden robots

로봇이라면 으례 차가운 금속성을 떠올리게 되는데 이렇게 나무로 만든 로봇을 보니 그 느낌이 사뭇 다르다. 일본 Take-G 다케지 나카가와의 정교하고 복잡한 수공제품.

아무리 기술이 발달해도 인간이 자연을 떠나 살 수 없으니 나무(자연)는 결국 인간의 미래라는 것이 나무로 로봇을 만든 그의 철학이다.

I often get asked "Why do you make robots with wood?" I don't really have an exact answer for it but I often relate my robots with [the] 'future'.

What do you relate [the] future with? Cities full of metal, glass and plastic [like] in a SF movie? What we really want is not that kind of future but one full of trees and something more natural. I don't think humans can live without trees no matter what advanced technology makes.

When I think of 'future', I cannot help thinking of 'past' at the same time. Trees take long time (tens and hundreds of years) to grow and show us their beauty (the product of their past). I think that I have responsibilities as a craftsman and an artist of breathing new life into these trees. I have a job to link 100 years in the past and 100 years in the future through my work.

Ref: reuben miller