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This is an installation in which flyers with the sky printed are spread across |
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the entire floor and illuminated by lights from light-boxes with the image of |
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the sky fixed on their surfaces. As the viewer enters the room by descending |
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a staircase, he/she will look down at the image of the sky. |
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"Kokuu" is originally aBuddhist concept that connotes "the infinite expansion |
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of the universe in a thing". However, it is generally accepted to mean |
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"a place on earth where there is absolutely nothing, or the sky". The Kanji |
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characters can be interpreted to mean "fabricated or imaginary sky" as well. |
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The same word can represent different meanings depending on the |
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standpoint, and they can seem contradictory. |
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The viewer will walk across the work stepping on the "fabricated sky" |
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illuminated by the "fabricated sky". By printing the sky, an element of nature |
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that we normally gaze up to, on fliers and illuminating them with artificial |
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light, the facts that we stand on an artificially created environment and that |
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our footings are also covered by information with multiple and conflicting |
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meanings are expressed. |
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(C)Fumie Wada / translation : Naoko Kawano |
