2001　 Graduate to Sculpture Course, Hiroshima City University 　　 B.F.A. sculpture Course, Hiroshima City University Kunihiko NOHARA is known for his carved wooden depictions of human beings and animals conjoined with spheres and other objects. Human beings and animals in his works are each endowed with their own unique and charming cluster of qualities in relation to space, odor, mood, sensibility, and time while simultaneously communicating via their enlarged proportions a strangeness and a mismatched essence. Contrary to the two-dimensionality of the line and color combinations we are accustomed to seeing in manga, a carved wooden object exhibits naked signs of shaving, has a physical weight, and enters our consciousness as something that actually exists in a physical space. NOHARA has been very active in recent years, examining the textural differences between media and creating limited-edition works that utilized FRP and other processes.