SHOICHI AND COLLEEN SAKURAI HEISEI ERA, 21ST CENTURY A Japanese wood and rice paper illuminated sculpture entitled ‘Curtain', raised on a pine wood stand with short legs, signed in sumi ink, seal and inscribed, 33cm x 36cm x 94cm. Exhibited: ‘Re-Birth: The Collective Works of Colleen and Soichi Sakurai’, 20 th February-24 th April 2009, TUV Rheinland Forum, Yokohama. The Sakurais describe this piece as 'hand-whittled wood with pine base; high and low relief created by an old technique of burning the wood and then 'scouring' it with an uzukuri (type of bamboo brush)'.