I wonder how the time I spent and will spend in this place before this ‘form’ will bring about changes to this three-dimensional object and 'this place’.
All I did with this sculpture was to cut a slit in a board and decide where to hang it. This single flat board is shaped by gravity, or the earth, and keeps changing according to its surroundings. This series of works considers the idea of 'letting the earth do the work’, whereby the changes affect the surroundings and together they create this place.
I usually repeat studies on paper and other materials when I create each of the sculptures in this series in metal, but after a few days they naturally change into complex curves that differ from their original form, depending on the surrounding conditions, such as humidity and wind. This was a process that made me think about facing the chain of change.
In this location, two groups are arranged, one made of paper and the other of metal.
The two groups have a time difference in shape change according to their individual characteristics, and they build a relationship with this place individually as well as collectively as a group.
In the metal group, the shape is stabilised to a certain extent immediately after it is suspended, but the air flow rotates it and changes the way it receives light, so the floating reflected light is constantly changing and has a significant impact on its surroundings. However, depending on the surrounding conditions, the shape can also gradually change over a relatively long period of time, becoming different from the initial shape.
In the case of paper swarms, the shape is formed immediately after the change in shape caused by gravity begins, changing over a relatively short period of time (minutes, hours or days), depending on the humidity, air flow and movement of people in the area. The place also wears different shadows as it changes, and its appearance changes from day to day.
Each person who spends time in this place may be in the same place at the same time, but the accumulation of time spent in this place is different. Just as stones are chipped away and changed in the flow of a river, each of them shows their own appearance depending on how they build a relationship with this place in the flow of time.
Although these groups have spent only a short time in this place, they have their own forms, created by changes in the small environment around them, not to mention the earth itself, and their relationships with each other also have their own forms. And even now, for as long as we spend here, the chain of relationships will continue in this place.
Just as this 'form’ and this place would not be what it is today without the time spent here, I believe that every moment spent by each of us is an important time for the 'you’ that has brought each of us to the present and for the 'you’ to come.