{"id":85487,"date":"2025-07-23T08:43:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T08:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/85487\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T08:43:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T08:43:20","slug":"anatomy-and-ancient-sea-creatures-converge-in-hine-mizushimas-felt-sculptures-colossal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/85487\/","title":{"rendered":"Anatomy and Ancient Sea Creatures Converge in Hin\u00e9 Mizushima&#8217;s Felt Sculptures \u2014 Colossal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the spiral shells of prehistoric ammonites to uncanny depictions of organs and fish, <a href=\"https:\/\/hinemizushima.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hin\u00e9 Mizushima<\/a> has a knack for combining cuteness and humor with the unusual and unseen. The Vancouver-based artist (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/tags\/hine-mizushima\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previously<\/a>) continues to create vibrant dioramas and wall sculptures that toy with textiles, anatomy, and taxidermy.<\/p>\n<p>Using felt, sequins, embroidery thread, and yarn, Mizushima builds colorful displays of coral, animals, and botanicals. A mounted moray eel, for example, mimics a natural history display, showing a cutaway of its belly revealing a\u2014rather lively\u2014baby eel.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/mizushima-8.jpg\" alt=\"a felted diorama of little pink squid amid seaweed\" class=\"wp-image-459065\"  \/>\u201cSquids\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the artist also sewed a series of brooches in the form of microscopic organisms like Daphnia and Paramecium and anatomical human organs. Nerves and blood vessels extend along the root and crown of a tooth, complete with a filled cavity. <\/p>\n<p>Mizushima is currently preparing for a group show at Ranbu Gallery in Osaka this fall, plus another group exhibition at Beinart Gallery in Melbourne in early 2026. The artist looks forward to experimenting with some new craft techniques and focusing on her <a href=\"https:\/\/tidd.ly\/4kRtYCL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Etsy shop<\/a>, where original pieces and prints are available for purchase. Explore more on her <a href=\"https:\/\/hinemizushima.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">website<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sheishine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.behance.net\/hine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Behance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/mizushima-4.jpg\" alt=\"a felted brooch in the shape of an anatomical tooth\" class=\"wp-image-459061\"  \/>Anatomical felt brooch<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/mizushima-5.jpg\" alt=\"a felted sculpture of a moray eel with its anatomical cutaway belly showing a baby inside, mounted on a wood plaque\" class=\"wp-image-459062\"  \/>\u201cAnatomical Moray Eel\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/mizushima-6.jpg\" alt=\"detail of a baby moray eel in an anatomical felt sculpture\" class=\"wp-image-459063\"  \/>Detail of \u201cAnatomical Moray Eel\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/mizushima-9.jpg\" alt=\"a felted sculpture of a pink &quot;phantom squid&quot; mounted on a wooden plaque\" class=\"wp-image-459057\"  \/>\u201cPhantom Squid\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1999\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/mizushima-7.jpg\" alt=\"a felted diorama of a blue-green ammonite creature amid coral-like structures\" class=\"wp-image-459064\"  \/>\u201cAmmonite\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1429\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/mizushima-2.jpg\" alt=\"a felted brooch in the shape of an anatomical organ\" class=\"wp-image-459059\"  \/>Anatomical felt brooch<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/mizushima-10.jpg\" alt=\"a felted sculpture of a two-headed creature with a turtle shell on its back, mounted on a wooden plaque\" class=\"wp-image-459056\"  \/>\u201cTurtleback Twin Beasts\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1429\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/mizushima-3.jpg\" alt=\"a felted brooch in the shape of an anatomical heart\" class=\"wp-image-459060\"  \/>Anatomical felt brooch<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do stories and artists like this matter to you?<\/strong> Become a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/members\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"118516\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colossal Member<\/a> now, and support independent arts publishing.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Hide advertising<\/li>\n<li>Save your favorite articles<\/li>\n<li>Get 15% off in the <a href=\"https:\/\/colossal.shop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colossal Shop<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Receive members-only newsletter<\/li>\n<li>Give 1% for art supplies in K-12 classrooms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From the spiral shells of prehistoric ammonites to uncanny depictions of organs and fish, Hin\u00e9 Mizushima has a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":85488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[648,1032,1033,171,57774,9251,57775,7276,1038,57776,57777,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-85487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-design","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-felt","13":"tag-fish","14":"tag-hine-mizushima","15":"tag-jewelry","16":"tag-sculpture","17":"tag-sewing","18":"tag-textiles","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114901667523955376","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}