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Rie Sakamoto is a graduating art student from Japan’s Tama Art University.
For her thesis exhibition, she decided to turn her eyes to the lowly rubber band, a stationary item overlooked in contemporary design, which values functionality and scarcity.
In her studies of the rubber band, Sakamoto, who is part of the department of Integrated Design, says she realized that the rubber band does in fact have more functionality than immediately meets the eye.
In addition to its texture, flexibility and opacity, the rubber band is actually an aesthetically beautiful object.
Sakamoto’s “Rubber Collection” was on view last week in Tokyo as part of a group exhibition of graduating seniors.