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.
Steel
76×600×135 (h)cm
Ceramics and Others
350×200×55 (h)cm
A procession with no beginning and no end. We have had a strong craving for our true nature based on the faith in perfection. But rather, our sense perception have made us meet the delusions. Our procession is one with the statues of mounted soldiers who have broken out of the unenlightened, repressed and unplugged space. Where are we going?
Black granite
105×90×100 (h)cm
100×100×120 (h)cm
Form is a thing that exists through various relationships that support each other.
If there’s a front, there must be a back, and if there’s an outside, there must be an inside.
Their mutual relationships may be visible to the eye, but they may not.
Granite
108×171×145 (h)cm
F.R.P
Installation Size
When our memory fills to capacity, it turns into droplets that fly to the sky, so we have space to take in the next memory.
So the droplets that flew away burst after a while, and start to tint our future.
Zelcova, Mountain cherry
75×180×70 (h)cm
40×90×40 (h)cm
When I stand in front of the raw wood, I often get the feeling that just a very little work on it could bring forth a good form.
I worked on that kind of wood and created a single fruit.
I took time to fill in the blocks and join the raw wood together, and by the start of summer the elaborate piece of zelkova wood had dried and become a powerful sculpture.
I placed it boldly in a liberated space.
Ceramics
340×320×800 (h)cm
Distant horizon
White granite, Film
50×95×215 (h)cm
Getting smeared with earth on a broad landscape… I am beset with unease that I still cannot see where I am going.
Nevertheless, the one thing I don’t want to lose, as someone alive today, is the bright hope within me.
Steel
300×330×340 (h)cm
The inspiration for this work actually came from the site where I intended to place it.
The first things I feel standing by the riverside are the breadth of the sky, and the great expanse of rural scenery, bounded by Mt. Tsukuba and Mt. Kaba.
I thought that perhaps, by incorporating this scenery into my work, I could reveal what lay beyond it.
Andesite
78×173×90 (h)cm
The work is created by long months and days.
The stone accepts them into itself.
Every moment, the stone watches me with a cool gaze.
Its presence sustains me.
Japanese camphor, Hack berry
220×300×770 (h)cm
A single great tree stands beyond the field.
There are many great trees around here.
I thought I’d like to experience, in this place, a momentary movement and the tranquility that follows it.
Steel, Stone (andesite) and Others
200×240×640 (h)cm
In Nishikata Park, I discovered a tree shadow that was out of balance with its surroundings, making a wild impression. On the ground, rusty metal fragments and concrete chunks protruded.
But the trees I looked up at were stirred in spring by pleasant breezes through their new leaves, the light dapples through them in summer, and their falling leaves dance slowly down in autumn.
I wanted to link the sublime waiting above with the ground.
Red granite, White granite
550×550×80 (h)cm
150×300×15 (h)cm
66×223×176 (h)cm
Rest and curl up
66×66×58 (h)cm
Cuddle for warmth
70×74×100 (h)cm
Ceramics
Granite
I 80×132×172 (h)cm
II 58×145×215 (h)cm
III 79×86×127 (h)cm
The title is the distillation of what I was trying to express. “Full” and “Emptiness” are opposites, but at the same time, they can be said to be the same, depending on where I set my consciousness.
The position seen from without, and the position seen from within, are reflected as one and the same in a heart that has ceased to feel inside or outside.
90×270×225 (h)cm
58×56×51 (h)cm
White granite
Ceramics, Steel, Stainless steel
4,000×20×110 (h)cm
One day, human presence will cease, and time will pass peacefully.
Marked time passes on the platform of the old Higashi Iida Station.
A slight hint of colour climbs on the wind and gently moves on, without even looking back.
Does the colour on the wind wander like a puzzle, gazing into the distance?
I keep my feet on the platform.
Black granite
Left: 44×74×155 (h)cm
Right: 56×92×191 (h)cm
Lacquer, Steel, Hemp cloth, Pulverized whetstone, Stainless steel wire
Left : 90×80×182 (h)cm
Right: 90×90×300 (h)cm
Marble
140×134×143 (h)cm
I stare at the stone, and carve the stone.
A chip that flies off, and the dent left behind.
I think as I feel the shock coming back up through my hand:
How far did that one blow reach? How far did it reverberate?
The silent stone.
I wonder what it would be like to shatter the silence the stone keeps.
Granite, Hume pipe
183×203×134 (h)cm
Steel
280×280×22 (h)cm
A tiny depth and space created by heat.
A moment revealed by disappearance.
The iron and I are tested by the negative contradictions of trying to awaken.
Log, Brick, Steel pipe
800×800×200 (h)cm x2 pieces
By visiting Amabiki many times, one can understand those things that change and those that do not.
There are unchanging things amid those that are transient, and those that do not move on eventually disappear.
I want to gaze quietly upon the things that do not change, and be taken in by transient existence.
Nothing will remain, and nothing can remain.
After a long enough time of circulation and repetition, there is no one thing that I am satisfied with.
Gelatin silver print
100×120 (h)cm ×3 pieces
Photograph
80×80 (h)cm x12 pieces
In this exhibition, which keeps changing the area and spaces where the works are shown, the place I chose was a space that had long given me a feeling of darkness.
I brought artificial light into that place. It is the decorative light of a pachinko hall, the mercury light of a golf driving range. The grass and the rainwater are together stained red, and the trees are green, sucking the sunlight. The faces of three generations of women take on their own forms.
Mixed media
700×500×196 (h)cm
Wood, Stainless steel mesh
452×1,120×230 (h)cm
In spring this year I visited Thailand, and I imagine that is what inspired me. I was fascinated with the structure of this Old Pavilion and how it skirts the boundaries between inside and out, seeming to at once reveal and conceal the surrounding landscape. I wanted to explore the relationship between “suspension” and “esting” as I recreated this carefully preserved structure in this new space.
White granite
110×148×185 (h)cm
Marble
120×118×152 (h)cm
Aluminum
400×400×120 (h)cm
“Wind and Boxes”
These are boxes of wind. I want to embrace the wind blowing from the horizon. I’ve tried to catch it many times, but it bounced and then left. I changed my mind. I gave up trying to put it into these yellow boxes. I hope you let yourself be blown to your favorite place, even to the plains and the mountains.
Aluminum, Cloth, Steel
35×130×70 (h)cm ×8pieces
Brack granite
88×58×147 (h)cm
My idea for this work was to recognize the outside as a geometrically simple form and pursue a geometrically complex form on the inside.
For the coloration, orange and white have been used for Japanese shrines since ancient times and, for me, they are the colours of Japan, so I used them as the theme colours for this work.
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.
Black granite, Lead
Installation size
That black, tilted house stood silently, unused. In a small space next to it, a rusty two-wheeled cart is buried in the long grass. If you ask, that used to be the route the horses took to reach the house. By placing my work there, I was pleased to think that I was writing a new memory onto that road.
black granite
153×82×73 (h)cm
Black granite
92.5×92.5×150 (h)cm
Stainless steel
390×230×230 (h)cm
Granite
2,300×120×150 (h)cm
Black granite
40×60×40 (h)cm ×5pieces
The festival drew nearer.
Under a big zelkova tree, guardian dogs emerged from the woods as if to participate by guarding the shrine and the mountain.
Various guardian dogs were playing around that tree.
Then maybe we should get them to help pulling the festival float.
White granite, Soil
530×200×45 (h)cm
Stainless steel
30×30×100 (h)cm ×3pieces