AMABIKI 2015

Bookends
Steel

22.5×30×31.6 (h)cm ×12(p)

AMABIKI 2013

Slits on a vertical line

Steel

15×15×360 (h)cm ×2pieces

How do I really grasp this secluded area surrounded by trees?
Like marking the passage of time I placed two square iron tubes with sculptured grooves and channels vertically into the ground.
The relationship in space between these two vertical axes gives birth to a sensation of a gap in time between here, and there.
Using minimal expression I have tried to create both an understanding and defamiliarization of space.

AMABIKI 2011　　In the midst of winter

ONIMUSHI's dreams

Steel

[90-120]x[90-120]x[50-60](h)cm x6pieces

There was a women working on turning over the soil. Asked what she was doing she said "ONIMUSHI".
"ONIMUSHI?" Peeping into a bucket standing nearby, I saw a pile of the pale, translucent larvae of stag beetles.
I was shocked for a moment. It was an erotic image, like the genitals of adolescent boys.
Places where fallen leaves pile up are, for these larvae, like a warm and comfortable bed.
That incident provided the motif for my current piece of work.
"O-NI MU-SHI" sounds like "the devil bugs".

AMABIKI 2008

Formation of movement

Steel

1,800×20×20 (h)cm

I am thinking of a shape created from steel, standing in the woods, its form following the ground surface, contrasting with the shapes and verticality of the trees.
Cutting grooves into square steel pipes creates organic curves from the inorganic linearity of that industrial product.
I will put that curve up against a single wild cherry tree and see what presence the iron exerts in the woods.

AMABIKI 2006

Fragments of Sound-At an Unmanned Station

Steel, Rubber, Urethane foam, Nut

186(ø)×71.5 (h)cm /Table
47.1×45×85 (h)cm ×4pieces /Chair

There was nobody in the waiting room of the bleak, unmanned station building. While I waited for the train, I heard only the echo of my breath and footsteps. I wanted something that would imply human presence while serving the purpose of the waiting room. That became a table and chairs that make sounds, which would hold communication between the people who gather in the waiting room.

THE 5TH EXHIBITION OF AMABIKI VILLAGE AND SCULPTURE

3 (or like a small tree-house)

Aluminum, Stainless steel

15-20×15-30×10(h)cm (×60P)
0.47kg (1P)

Leaving the path through the rice fields and moving into the copse, a strange feeling came over me that it would go on forever. Surrounded by trees, as if I had seen something frightening, part of me wanted to go deeper into the heart of the forest. I placed 60 pieces, all variations on a form comprising three square aluminum pipes, dotted among the trees. To move around the forest, in a dialog with its trees. They became rather like little houses atop the trees.

THE 4TH EXHIBITION OF AMABIKI VILLAGE AND SCULPTURE

Relation Between Bamboo and Iron

Steel

12.5-31.25×25-37.5×250 cm (×9P)
90 kg (×9P)

I still remember the amazement I felt one afternoon in the summer of last year when I discovered this deep bamboo grove. I wander through the bamboo grove, and from time to time, I just stop for a while, amid the solemn air and the light that pours down from above. I will erect nine pillar forms in this grove, each consisting of three rectangular steel sections. That resembles the motions of placing my own body among the bamboo. In the time and space of wandering through the grove, the will of the steel, which is the form and material I shaped, slips in and out of view.