A Japanese artist who lives in America. His most famous artwork is a large network of connected perspex boxes, each filled with coloured sand to make a picture of a particular country's flag. This being done, Yukinori let loose the ants, turning the installation into a vast ant farm. The sand carried from box to box, the flags broken down, the metaphor clear.
I like more, I think, the series of Wandering Position drawings (I think this one's from 1996, but it might be 1998) in which Yukinori locked himself for several hours each day in a large perspex box in the company of a single ant, whose movements he followed with a red crayon. Surprisingly, the ant didn't draw the flag of Japan. Wahay, capillaries! More information here.
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