Scenery I saw of floating stones

framed image box-shaped picture frame with glass

The landscape seen from the small stone on the side of the work is drawn on a black paper file with that stone. At the edge of the waves, I found a hard pumice stone in a place where many things that had been hit accumulate. When I took a picture without looking through the viewfinder from that stone, I saw a steep rocky area and horizon. The scenery that spreads from the earth to the sea made me wonder how this pumice stone left from the earth.
(The stone used for drawing is also attached to the picture. Since the ground is paper files, it is a work that makes it difficult to remove dust and dirt. (An acrylic case or frame is required for long-term displays)

This is the view from the pebble's point of view. That pebble will also be attached to the work. I'm drawing on black sandpaper with those pebbles, just like drawing with chalk on a blackboard. Pebbles literally powder their bodies, painting the world around them in their own colors and from their own point of view. That point of view and that moment of the surroundings are unique. “Roadside stones” are synonymous with “worthless things.” But that value standard is only for use. We are part of nature, but we tend to forget that.

Exhibited at solo exhibition at Gallery Apa Main Room (Nagoya) in 2018

Draw with stones on sandpaper: photograph the landscape from the perspective of pebbles.
Based on that photo, I will draw a landscape with that stone on black sandpaper. Similar to writing with chalk on a blackboard, it is drawn using a stone that can be scraped and black sandpaper lines can be drawn.

Depicted location: Toba City, Mie Prefecture/ Production Location: Atelier Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

All things and things shape the present. In that moment, we never met again. Moments ahead of the present is the future, and everything in the present shapes the future ahead. No entity can spill out of it.

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