Ayumi Tsuchiya makes hand-built wooden objects that sit between sculpture, furniture, instrument, and playground — a rocking chair that becomes a bench when flipped, a seesaw that plays like a xylophone, a hand-hollowed bowl big enough to climb inside. Children approach them instinctively, rocking and pushing, while adults hunt for instructions first; that gap is central to her practice. She is less interested in what happens in front of an artwork than in the communication that unfolds around it.
