Ayami Aoyama’s sculptures resonate with the natural world. Her contemplative works are imbued with distillate, poetic and sensual imagery which she has unleashed from a Pandora of possibilities held in silence within the blocks of stone she carves. Armed with an essential trust in herself, Aoyama magistrates the physicality of her carving with such focus and synchronicity with the sensual side of her creative process that she is able to recognize the moment when she has essentially unlocked the form she is seeking. These are the moments of deeply felt triumph for the artist.