

2012
mixed media
fan,styloform,plants,headlight
video,soil,stuffed animal,wood,hazemachine
Photo: Shinpei Fukazawa
In a small room of a former brothel in port-town Koganecho, Yokohama, I created a fictional mountain and landscape diorama. Viewers entered a narrow passageway, to encounter my imagined world, a space with colorful grass swaying in a breeze wind, fictional animals and plants, all of it shrouded in a thick shroud of mist. Overhead, a headlamp searchlight rotated, bringing parts of the foggy landscape into focus. In the background, monochrome clouds drifted by. I proposed a polar opposite of what I imagine that room must have been, a rich experience to draw attention to transformation.