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10 Takeshi Yonezawa
When encountering Takeshi “Yone” Yonezawa’s “Determination”—a life-size sculpture of a red-tailed hawk constructed entirely from leather—you might feel awe at the bird’s broad wingspan dwarfing everything else in the room, or you might be spellbound by the precision of its plumage, from the gradients of brown bars on its back to its coppery tail feathers. You might be struck by Yone’s skillfulness, tenacity, and reverence for this creature—and you’d be right. What you might not imagine, though, is that Yone describes the 2,000 hours he devoted to creating this project as “fun.”
