Natsumi Tomita (1986- ) is a sculptor who is from Tokyo. She graduated from Tama Art University , painting department at the top of her class.
She create many animals and dinosaurs making the best use of scrap materials such as cans,broken musical instruments, game hardware, cooking utensils, construction signs.Her works are usually humorously named. She gave the name of Tyra for a tyrannosaure, Stacy for Stegosaur, Do-do and Mi-do for two dodos.
Tomita also creates many human-being-figures such as Japanese office worker, high school student, homemaker, old people, young athlete making skillful use of acrap newspapers, scrap magazines and scrap flyers. Each personality of the human beings is expressed in a comical manner by articles of newspaper and magazines. Her eyes on the human beings are always warmhearted with a little bit of irony.
Martha, crowned crane is displayed for the first time in this show. She is a fruit of the collaboration of Tomita and Yamazaki Mazak which is a machine tool maker and the headquarters of our museum. Actually Martha is created by scrap metal from the factories of Yamazaki Mazak and will welcome you in our exhibition room with other wonderful 76 works by Tomita.

The collection of The Yamazaki Mazak Museum of Arts is composed of artworks from the Old Masters of the French Rococo period, Romanticism, Neo-Classicism , Realism, Impressionism, the Ecole de Paris, and others. Visitors are presented a timeline of French art which encompasses 300 years, from the 18th to the 20th century.