

2011
FRP, sand, motor, spot light
Photo: Shinpei Fukazawa/Taiun Takada
This work visualized the accumulation, expansion and contraction of time in volume and form. Sand continues to fall, lingers on tentative structures, builds up, then resettles before falling again. With the surface constantly shifting, each viewing is new. The work is a continuation of change, a constant state of change, and the present moment. The past has a sense of continuum, but the present is constantly in flux. The present therefore is not just a location adjacent to the past or future, but one that encompasses both the past and the future. Through the present, myself, I express time as it expands in my consciousness, moving from above (future) to below (past). It is precisely because the past "exists" that we can freely travel through time and memories. The sand piles exist as a kind of proof of previous activity like the present, but it takes time to form into recognizable past, the shift is gradual. This moment of pause, or in-between, is also visualized in the light reflecting off the crystalline floating sand as it drifts down, acting like a screen in motion. The grains of time stretch out before our eyes. The image is light, or light reflecting off of motion, in time.