Floating Membrane(Atami, Izu Peninsula, Japan)
Across a valley in the mountains that rise from the sea on the Izu Peninsula in Japan, I stretched a white membrane scalloped into waves. The translucent membrane transforms its shape in response to the wind that sweeps through the valley. In the daylight hours it sways as it catches the light, and at night it kindles a living glow, like a creature swimming serenely through the air. The valley spreads one hundred and twenty meters wide and falls more than fifty meters deep. To install it, I entrusted one end of a wire to a drone and let it fly to the far slope, suspending the work across the valley. Within the responses of material, technology, terrain, and weather, the membrane breathes in this place. The work is a faint medium that reflects the moods this land holds, its mountains and sea, its wind and light, its shifting colors and quiet presences.
Floating Membrane(Atami, Izu Peninsula, Japan)
伊豆半島の海から立ち上がる山の谷間に、波状にかたちを刻む白い被膜を渡した。半透明の膜は谷に吹き抜ける風に応じて形を変容させる。日のさす時間には光を受けて揺らぎ、夜には生命的な光を灯し、空中を悠然と泳ぐ生物のようでもある。谷は幅120mに広がり、深さは50mを超える。制作にはワイヤーの一端をドローンに託し、対岸まで飛行させることで、谷間への吊設を実現した。素材、技術、地形、気象、それぞれの応答のなかで、被膜はこの場所で呼吸している。本作品は、山と海、風と光、移ろう色と気配といった土地が抱える情緒を映す淡い媒介である。