ayumi tsuchiya’s wooden sculptures are made for touching, playing, and listening

Ayumi Tsuchiya’s wooden sculptures encourage curiosityChildren rarely stop to ask how Ayumi Tsuchiya’s sculptures work but intuitively climb inside them, rock back and forth, push, pull, and listen. Across hand-built wooden chairs, musical seesaws, oversized carved bowls, and flower-like seats, Tsuchiya’s practice revolves around objects that ask for the body as much as the eye. Her works occupy a space between sculpture, furniture, instrument, and playground, asking to be used before they are understood. Music runs through many of Ayumi Tsuchiya’s projects, though not for the reason one might expect. ‘I have things I want to create,’ Ayumi Tsuchiya shares with designboom.