An installation art space that attempts to express Japanese beauty. Japanese dance performances were held at this location, and before and after the performances, the audience was invited on stage to actually experience the installation.

In "Sakuteiki - Visions of the Japanese Garden" written in the Heian period (794-1185), it is written that the creation of space begins with "setting a stone," that is, by placing an object in an empty space. Also Ikenobo Sen'o, a master of Japanese flower arranging in the early modern period, once said: "With a spray of flowers, a bit of water, one evokes the vastness of rivers and mountains. "

A single object is used to evoke a vast landscape that does not actually exist in that location. When an object is placed in a space, a place is naturally created around it. A vast landscape evoked by a single organic form object. I believe that the space created in this way is the ideal place that humans unconsciously seek.

“One being, like a cloud swirling like a great wave.”
Japan is an island nation with humidity. Throughout the year, Various clouds are flowing in the sky. In Japan, clouds have been an important element of scenery since ancient times, and have been written about in numerous poems. I was fascinated by the beautiful, large, swirling holes that sometimes appeared in those flowing clouds, and tried to recreate them. Thin boards tilted in various directions catch the light and create shadows, and these shadows pile up irregularly to create darker shadows, indicating the volume of the clouds. It is a single organic form object. And around it, a blank space is created that invites people in. Visitors look up and face One being.

Hundreds of thin boards are drawn one by one in 3D space by a designer, and finely adjusted to a structurally balanced position by cutting-edge computational design to form a single object. Fixed to the ceiling are ten steel mesh grid panels, 800 mm wide by 1600 mm long, from which countless thin threads hang down regularly along the grid. Each thin board, 3 mm thick, is balanced in the air with three points pierced by its threads, and each board rests in the air in a defined shape. The thin boards are made of 100% virgin pulp material, which is also used in art storage boxes, strength and durability.

This object can be deployed in various spaces, creating different scenery around it depending on where it is placed. It has already been exhibited in two locations, and two more locations are being proposed. This way of thinking about space creation can be applied to the design of any space.

This work is an attempt to express the Japanese aesthetic sense of finding beauty in a single component of nature, such as a single flower, and creating a space using such an organically shaped object.