This sculpture, titled Conclusion, was created in 2009 in Aranya, Turkey, by Japanese sculptor Yasushi Hori.
Artist: Yasushi Hori. He is a renowned Japanese stone sculptor who has participated in numerous international sculpture symposia around the world.
Title: Conclusion.
Material: Granite.
Location & Date: Created during an international stone sculpture symposium in Aranya, Turkey, in 2009.
Concept & Theme: Conclusion is an abstract stone sculpture that explores the relationship between nature, human intervention, and the completion of a creative process. The work retains the powerful presence of the original granite block, with its rough, chiseled surfaces contrasted against carefully polished and precisely cut sections.
The upper surface is shaped into a series of soft, flowing undulations, creating an impression of water, wind, or a natural landscape transformed through time. In contrast, the central geometric intervention introduces a strong sense of human order and structure. The meeting between these two approaches—the irregularity of nature and the precision of the sculptor—forms the central visual language of the work.
The sculpture’s low, horizontal composition gives it a grounded and monumental character, while the central supporting form creates an unusual sense of balance and tension. The stone appears simultaneously heavy and light, solid and fluid, suggesting a transformation of the material from an untouched geological mass into an expressive sculptural form.
The title Conclusion can be interpreted as a reflection on the final stage of transformation—the moment when the natural stone, through the sculptor’s intervention, reaches a completed state. Rather than completely concealing the original character of the granite, Hori allows the raw stone to remain visible, suggesting that the conclusion of the artistic process is not the erasure of nature but a dialogue between what already exists and what is created by human hands.
Through its combination of rough stone, polished surfaces, organic contours, and geometric elements, Conclusion expresses ideas of completion, transformation, balance, and the coexistence of natural and human forms.
