CIVILIZED ZONE

Iron, Acrylic board, Television (5set),

160×160×500 cm
400 kg

TV.camera, Famicom game, Antenna
I feel that there is something in traditional rural scenery that keeps on changing.
It’s not in the visible scenery, but rather, the change is going on in the hearts of we who look at it. That phenomenon is clearly visible in children who have not yet developed the ability to defend themselves from it, but the territory of the thoughts and feelings of individual humans is constantly being invaded by a whirl of stimulus, like television images and video games that are manufactured and pumped out by an enormous information industry, under urban civilization and the dominance of economics.
This time, I attempted to express the confrontation between the rural scenery of Amabiki and the TV images that come into our living rooms.
Countless television screens alone are emitting alien light In the dead center of rice fields with darkness pressing in. They stand in the scenery of late fall, as the mountains change color, amid a blizzard which clouds the mountains, forests and houses,.