About
A Quiet Place Where Unshaped Things Rest
Horibito Forest is a small, quiet space tended by woodcarving artist Munenobu Nagata—a gentle offshoot of his main site, Horibito.
While Horibito centers on tangible activities like carving classes, commissions, and completed works,
Horibito Forest is where I leave behind the things that come before form—
the thoughts still in silence, the stories behind each creation, the quiet realizations found in everyday life.
Things felt in passing while carving.
Small hopes discovered in the midst of failure.
Fragments of memory kept quietly to myself.
These invisible elements are the soil from which my work grows.
Horibito Forest is a place to softly shine light on those things not yet ready to become art.
In the quiet hours spent with wood,
I encounter emotions that have no name,
landscapes that appear before they can be spoken.
By noticing them, recording them, and gently offering them outward,
perhaps they might mean something to someone else.
That’s why I decided to nurture this little forest.
I spend time here at my own pace—
so please, enter quietly, without a sound.