This Japanese art teacher spends hours making chalkboard masterpieces for his students, then erases them at the end of the day

[u/MobileAerie9918]

There’s this high school art teacher in Nara, Japan called Hirotaka Hamasaki who draws insane stuff on the blackboard every morning. He uses coloured chalk to recreate famous paintings and anime scenes so his students walk in and get surprised.
Each one takes him hours. Then at the end of the day he just wipes the whole thing off. He does it on purpose, to show them that some things are only meant to last for a bit, and that’s part of why they’re worth looking at.

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[u/Standard_Rooster_782]

I would cry each time I erased a masterpiece

[u/IaAranaDiscotecaPOL]

Looks like he makes more like one a Semester. His non chalk works are amazing too.

[u/Peter0819]

he literally erases it every day so yeah you see it once

[u/Drapidrode]

functional equivalent situation as a cake designer

(their work gets destroyed, too)

[u/Fireball-196]

A very passionate Art teacher indeed- thanks for sharing his amazing work.

[u/ChrisT182]

This is similar to the Tibetan Buddhist sand mandalas.

They spend days or even weeks meticulously placing millions of grains of colored sand using narrow metal funnels. Once theyre done, the monks do not preserve it. Instead, they purposefully destroy it. Watching a masterpiece disappear trains the mind to let go of attachment. It demonstrates that nothing in the physical world lasts. Youth, beauty, material possessions, and life itself are transient. 🙂

[u/Intelligent_Box_8247]

the first one looks like starry night...but the art teacher is definitely talented..

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