AMABIKI 2011 In the midst of winter

Toward a place with light

Wood, Marble flour, Natural light

280×280×280 (h)cm
42×240×400 (h)cm

Now that winter is heading into spring, the strength of the sun waxes day by day, heralding the approach of a new season.
Feeling the light of early spring with my entire body, I go walking straight ahead towards the hope that lies beyond it.
When the light penetrates into this wood, my work is completed by that moment of light.

AMABIKI 2008

Long Way to Go

Wood and Others

92×260×260 (h)cm

The wind ruffles the grassland, and looking up shows a broad and distant sky.
As time stops, or sometimes runs backwards, I want to walk from here again, along this road.
I entrust my hopes to the single red pine still living on that distant mountain.

AMABIKI 2006

Recurrence-Reincarnation

Withered tree, Dead tree, Beech seedling

1000×1000×700 (h)cm

A year ago, looking at a dead red pine that was clearly different from the leafless trees awaiting spring, "death" took possession of me. Before the stark reality of destruction of nature as a price we pay for civilization, there is nothing that can be done.
In order to return to our distant and forgotten origins, and to set out again to take a new first step, I must believe in a small hope of growing buds this spring.

THE 5TH EXHIBITION OF AMABIKI VILLAGE AND SCULPTURE

A Way Toward the Sacred Place

Cement

2600×45×30 cm

Going through Amabiki Village, one notices the large and small shrines all around. Entering a shrine, one is isolated from the hubbub of the everyday and enfolded in an extraordinary tranquility. That is a thousand-year memory that will be inscribed within me, a moment called into being across time and space. The human world and the realm of the gods are revealed in an arrow-straight road existing as a link between this bank and the other side.

THE 4TH EXHIBITION OF AMABIKI VILLAGE AND SCULPTURE

Skylight

Wood, Fluorescent paint, Natural light

300×300×480 cm

There are some moments in daily life when you re-recognize the presence of light that fills space. Light is noticed when it touches something, but I wanted to take the light that must exist between the source and the thing it falls on, and make it tangible. This is a device that gathers the natural light that pours down by day, and subtly emits light when darkness falls. It presents an experience of light.