Dissolving Light Space

Walk, Walk, Walk

The figures cross boundaries of other works and continue to walk around, influencing artworks they enter into. Sometimes they enter other spaces and continue as a new artwork. The group of anonymous and diverse figures keep walking, meaning the artwork is constantly moving. When people touch the figures, they react, sometimes stop, sometimes change direction and choose a different path. The figures in the artwork walk endlessly as they confront various situations.

Peace can be Realized Even without Order: Dissolving Light

Each figure plays an instrument or dances. There is no one who influences or has an understanding of the whole, nor a conductor like in an orchestra. The figures are influenced by the rhythm of sounds nearby. The figures influence each other and the rhythms of nearby figures become closer to each other. The pendulums of two pendulum clocks hanging on the wall become aligned. When many fireflies gather, they start to flash at the same time, creating a large light. The cells that make up the heart synchronize and vibrate at the same time.

Butterflies Falling: Death is Returning to the Flow of this World

The butterflies are born at one with the space, then scatter and dissolve into the world. Multiple layers of images and lines reach out towards you and the lines also extend to the far side. As a result, the artwork is drawn into the space itself, giving it a three-dimensional presence. There is a continuity between the artwork and the world, and the boundary between the artwork and the viewer's body is ambiguous.

Flowers Scattering and Dissolving into the World

The flowers that are born in the space, become one with the space, then scatter and dissolve into the world. As people become one with the flowers, the flowers scatter. There is a continuity between the artwork and the world, and the boundary between the artwork and the body is ambiguous. When other artworks enter the space the flowers die, and when there are no more, they are reborn nearby in connection with Walk, Walk, Walk.

Reversible Rotation Dissolving: Darkness Sculpture

Calligraphy is expressed with darkness within a mass of light, it forms a sculpture made of three-dimensional darkness. The calligraphy is depicted as one with the space, it begins to dissolve and turns into darkness that blends into the world. The artwork and the world are continuous, and the boundary between the work and the body is ambiguous.

Cosmic Void

The Void

A pitch black artwork with nothing in it. Because it is empty, anything can enter it. Infinite possibilities open up. Because it is empty, it highlights other existences and concepts.

Walk, Walk, Walk: Free Infinity

If you stand at a position close to the entrance, the boundary between the wall and the floor disappears, the real space dissolves, and your body becomes immersed in the artwork. Anonymous and diverse figures walk freely in the space. They sing, and when they walk near visitors, they sing more. Just as the figures in the artwork move freely, singing and dancing in any direction, people in real life are also free to do the same.

The Way of the Sea: Cosmic Void

The movement of thousands of fish is beautiful and mysterious, appearing like a single life form. The physiological mechanism of the movement of the shoal is shrouded in mystery, but the fact it feels like a living organism suggests there is a high level of order in space and time.

Butterfly House

Flutter of Butterflies Beyond Borders

When no one is in the space, nothing exists. When people enter, butterflies emerge. If people touch them, they scatter. The butterflies fly into displays or out of the space, transcend other works, and fly into other art. The butterflies are created by people in the Butterfly House. If the number of butterflies that die when people touch them is more than the number created, the art ceases to exist. When this artwork disappears, butterflies no longer enter the other spaces, and the artworks of butterflies no longer appear.

Memory of Topography

Memory of Topography

Memories of a timeless rural mountain landscape are depicted with varying elevations. The artwork changes with the passage of real time. The budding rice plants, small in the spring, grow larger in the summer and turn golden in the fall. As time passes, the flowers change, and the gentle breezes move in response to the behavior of people. As the people move around the flow changes, blowing rice plants or scattering flower petals in different directions.

Flutter of Butterflies Beyond Borders: Memory of Topography

Each butterfly influences neighboring butterflies, and through a synchronization phenomenon, the frequency of their flapping wing beats becomes synchronized. The transformative nature of the canvas and the continuous, dynamic behavior allow people to immerse themselves physically in the art. As the shared world of the artwork changes due to the presence of each person in the space, everyone in the space begins to dissolve into the same world together.

The Way of the Sea: Memory of Topography - Colors of Life

The shoal of fish rendered in light swim freely around the space. People who enter are assigned a color, and when a fish passes by a person, it takes on the same color. The movement of thousands of fish is beautiful and mysterious, appearing like a single giant life form. The physiological mechanism of the movement of the shoal is shrouded in mystery, but the fact that it feels like a living organism intuitively suggests that there is a high level of order in space and time.

Frozen Transparency

Flutter of Butterflies: At the Moment of Death, the Outline of Existence Appears

Real space overlaps with that of the artwork world, while the artwork incorporates real space, the boundary between the artwork and real space is ambiguous and one. When the viewer is in the artwork space, the artwork space as seen by other people from outside the artwork is the same as that seen by the viewer from within the artwork space.

Continuous Trajectories: Frozen Transparency

The Spatial Calligraphy in this artwork space rotates in the same direction, but because of the characteristics of Ultrasubjective Space, visually, the clockwise and counterclockwise rotation are logically equivalent. Hence, the work can appear to be rotating in either direction depending on how the viewer chooses to look at it.

The Way of the Sea: Frozen Transparency

Fish depicted by light points swim freely around the space. People are immersed into the shoal of fish due to a visual illusion created by the shoal's continuous, dynamic behavior. The movement of fish is beautiful and mysterious, appearing like a single giant life form. The shoal has neither a leader nor mutual consensus, but the fish move on the simple basis of, if my neighbor moves, then I move. The arrangement of color of the shoal is not predetermined. Influenced by people, the fish move, which in turn creates a complex and beautiful coloration in the space.

Crystal World

Infinite Crystal World

Light points are used to create three-dimensional objects. The light sculpture extends infinitely in all directions. Just as the existence of a whirlpool is maintained even if a person enters it, when continuity and structure are formed in a group of points, even if they are spatially and temporally separated, they may be recognised as a single existence. Even if a person enters that existence it is maintained, and at that point, the existence of the person and the sculpture become one.

Flutter of Butterflies Beyond Borders: Crystal World

A group of butterflies born in the Butterfly House free art from the notion of frames, transcending the boundaries of the artwork as they fly seamlessly through the works. The artwork is not a pre-recorded image that is played back; it is created by a computer program that continuously renders the work in real time. The interaction between people and the installation causes continuous change in the artwork, so previous visual states can never be replicated.

The Way of the Sea: Crystal World

This work starts when the shoal of fish from The Way of the Sea enters Crystal World and ends when they leave and disappear. This interactive installation uses an accumulation of light points to create a sculptural body.

Bubble Universe

Bubble Universe: Spherical Crystallized Light, Wobbling Light, and Environmental Light - One Stroke

Inside the sphere is a mixture of a spherical light that looks like light has crystallized. High up is a faint light like a wobbling lump of jelly, and countless lights are created by the surrounding environment, with alternating moving light and still light. However, spheres of light and light jelly do not exist. There is no glass or other material on the surface of the sphere of light; the sphere is made only of light. The spheres of light and light jelly do not exist in the physical world, but exist in the world of perception.

Sketch Ocean

Sketch Ocean

All the fish drawn by everyone swim around in this ocean. Color in a fish on the paper provided and see the picture you have colored come to life, swimming out into the ocean in front of you together with the fish drawn by other people. If you touch the fish, they will swim away. You can also feed the fish by touching the food bags. Sometimes, the fish leave the room, transcend the boundaries between artworks, and begin to swim.

People Create Space and Time

People Create Space and Time, at the Confluence of their Spacetime New Space and Time is Born

Flowers are born, their petals scatter and they die.The cycle of life and death repeats itself. Space and time changes due to the presence of people, and when these intersect, new spacetime is born.

Sharing Rock Mass

A floating rock mass leaves the space, floats through a passage, and sinks into the wall. The sinking transcends physical space and appears in another space. When the rock mass is sinking, if people touch it, it will glow, and light will reach the part of the rock in another space. The light emitted when people touch the part of the rock in another place also reaches the part of the mass in this place. Sometimes the whole mass will sink into the wall. When that happens, this work will no longer exist in this place. Rock mass in another place may sink into the wall there, causing rock mass to protrude from the wall of this place.

Universe of Water Particles on a Rock where People Gather

The waterfall that pours onto The Rock continues to transform, influenced by the presence of the rock and the people, along with the art that enters the space. The flow of water will influence the art that enters the space. The Rock where People Gather was created by reproducing the art in a three-dimensional space. Water was simulated to fall onto the rock, to depict movement of water on the rock's surface. The water is represented by a continuum of water particles, and the trajectories are calculated. Lines are drawn according to the movement of the particles.

Other Installations

Reversible Rotation

The spatial calligraphy in this artwork space rotates in the same direction but because of the characteristics of ultrasubjective space, visually the clockwise and counterclockwise rotation are logically equivalent. Hence the work can appear to be rotating in either direction.

Reversible Rotation: Emptiness Black

The black of the calligraphy drawn with light signifies emptiness. The emptiness of black opens up the infinite possibility of anything entering. The Spatial Calligraphy in this artwork space rotates in the same direction, but because of the characteristics of Ultrasubjective Space, visually, the clockwise and counterclockwise rotation are logically equivalent. Hence, the work can appear to be rotating in either direction depending on how the viewer chooses to look at it.

Life Survives by the Power of Life II

In this artwork, sei, the character that signifies life, is written three-dimensionally. The space of a traditional artwork, framed by a lens or perspective, appears to be on the other side of the art's surface: the surface becomes a boundary. Here, the artwork surface does not become a boundary. The space in which the art exists, transcends the boundary of the art surface and is perceived as though it exists three-dimensionally in the space where the viewer stands. The artwork space is continuous with the viewer's physical space.

Autonomous Abstraction

Dots of light blink and change color in cycles unique to each dot. A spontaneous order phenomenon occurs between dots close to each other, and their hues and rhythm synchronize. When people touch them, the rhythm changes and is randomized, but the dots close to each other once again cause a spontaneous order phenomenon between them. The dots emit a tone each time they blink. The tones can be heard continuously throughout the space; what sounds like music is created by the tones produced by the lights.

Continuous Trajectories: Born in the Darkness, Return to the Darkness

Masses of spacetime exist in disarray, and the spacetimes of each mass connect to each other. This work begins when Continuous Trajectories: One Stroke is drawn as far as the space of Megalith Space.

Continuous Life and Death at the Now of Eternity II

Flowers are eternally repeating the process of life and death. The flowers that bloom change daily along with the real-time seasons. As the sun rises where the artwork is located, the world of the artwork becomes brighter, and as the sun sets, it becomes darker. The real time in which the viewer exists, the time of the city, and the time of the life and death of the flowers intersect and overlap, while the viewer's body, the city, and the world of the artwork remain connected. The artwork space is an overlap of different times and space.

Crows are Chased and the Chasing Crows are Destined to be Chased As Well

Flocks of mythical crows (Yatagarasu) rendered in light fly around the space leaving trails in their wake and forming Spatial Calligraphy. The chasing crows are eventually chased themselves, and form flowers when they crash into each other, scattering their petals. Although the crows usually avoid crashing into people in the space, when they happen to do so, they similarly form flowers, scattering their petals.

Other Installations

Animals of Flowers, Symbiotic Lives

Animals are born from Flowers and People, Cannot be Controlled but Live Together and are made from the flowers of the place where they were born. Since the flowers in the places where they are born change over time, the flowers that make up the animals also change. Flowers continue to form animals through a repeated cycle of birth and death. When people touch the flowers of the animals, the flowers scatter. If people touch the animal too much, the animal will die and fade away.

Dark Waves: Born in the Darkness, Return to the Darkness

Masses of spacetime exist in disarray, and the spacetimes of each mass connect to each other. In contrast to space that is created through, or cut out by, lenses and perspective, Ultrasubjective Space does not fix the viewer's viewpoint and in turn frees the body. The wall that the waves are seen on does not become a boundary between the viewer and the artwork, and the artwork space is continuous with the space of the viewer's body.

Life is an Ephemeral Light that Blooms in the Dark

Masses of spacetime exist in disarray, and the spacetimes of each mass connect to each other. Flowers are born in the darkness, twinkle, scatter and return to the darkness. Flowers grow more abundantly when people stand still nearby, and scatter when they move around. When other artworks enter, the flowers die, and when there are none left, they start once again to be born and twinkle in the dark.

An Existence Without Center or Boundary

When you try to touch what appears to be the center, a black nucleus, it changes, you want to touch it but you cannot. What you thought was the center and what you thought were the boundaries do not actually exist. This work explores perception and existence, and how humans see the world.

Flowers and People, Cannot be Controlled but Live Together - A Whole Year per Hour

The seasons co-exist and change gradually across the space. Flowers blossom according to the seasons, and the places where they grow gradually change. The flowers bud, grow, and blossom before they begin to wither and their petals scatter, repeating the cycle of life and death in perpetuity. If a person stays still, the flowers surrounding them grow and bloom more abundantly, but if people touch or step on the flowers, they shed their petals, wither, and die. Sometimes the flowers cross boundaries of other works and bloom in other spaces, but scatter or die due to the influence of other works.

What a Loving, and Beautiful World

Each character has its own world. When people touch the letters, the worlds of the characters appear, and they influence each other, creating one single world. Rain, snow, and flowers are affected by the wind, birds perch on trees, and butterflies are attracted to flowers. When other artworks touch the letters, the worlds they contain appear as well. The worlds created by people interact with the worlds created by other people and other works, creating new imagery. The artwork seen at this moment in time can never be seen again. At times, the artwork spreads far and wide.

Moving Creates Vortices and Vortices Create Movement

When a person moves, a flow is born, and that flow creates an influence that extends far and wide. The movement of other people will likewise create a flow, coming together and creating a vortex. When people stop, or if people leave the space, the flow will eventually disappear and nothing will exist in the space. The flow in the artwork is expressed as a continuum of particles, and lines are drawn in three-dimensional space according to the trajectories of those particles. Each particle releases an extremely brief tone when it moves. Through the movement of many particles, the tones turn into continuous music.

Other Installations

Continuous Trajectories: One Stroke

The Spatial Calligraphy of the display artwork Reversible Rotation: Emptiness Black transcends the boundaries of the display and with one brush stroke crosses the boundaries of other artworks, and then goes on to continue to influence other artworks. The Spatial Calligraphy in this artwork space rotates in the same direction, but because of the characteristics of Ultrasubjective Space, visually, the clockwise and counterclockwise rotation are equivalent. Hence, the work can appear to be rotating in either direction depending on how the viewer chooses to see it.

Proliferating Immense Life - A Whole Year per Year

In the same flow of time as in the real world, flowers change with the seasons. Flowers repeat the cycle of birth and death, changing along with the seasons. When people touch the flowers, they fall and die. The flowers are also influenced by other works, falling and dying due to other works. The wall on which the world of the work is depicted does not become a boundary between the people and the work; the flowers blur the boundary between the walls, and the world of the work is continuous with the space where the people's bodies are located.

The Way of the Sea: Flying Beyond Borders

The work begins when a shoal of fish emerges from a space. The fish swim freely, transcending the boundaries of other works, and influencing other works. Then, when they enter another space they continue as a new artwork. When people touch a shoal of fish, the fish are dyed a color unique to that person. The movement of thousands of fish is beautiful and mysterious, appearing like a single life form. The physiological mechanism of the movement of the shoal is shrouded in mystery, but the fact it feels like a living organism suggests that there is a high level of order in space and time.

Black Waves: Flowing Beyond Borders

Continuing from Frozen Transparency, this art transcends boundaries of other works, influences them, and continues into the distance, connecting to other spaces and continuing as a new work. All oceans are connected to each other, and so are all waves in this world. These waves created by lines allow us to realize that each wave is one part of a larger flow, and conveys life as though the waves are a living entity. When the waves rise, we can feel a breath of life. It feels as though each wave has a life of its own. But when waves collapse and disappear, we realize they were a part of the ocean connected to all the other oceans.

Nirvana: Fleeting Flower Shimmering Light

The artwork is depicted by flowers that repeat the cycle of life and death, born and withering, scattering as people touch them. When they scatter, the world fades. Plants and animals are created as three-dimensional objects in 3D space that is turned into a video work. As the animals move while the flowers on the screen remain fixed, the coloring of the flowers moves on a different time axis to the space of the artwork. When viewed as a whole from a distance, the bright colors created by visual mixing represent the world of plants and animals in a space moving on a slow time axis.

Microcosmoses: Wobbling Light and Environmental Light

Countless lights move through an infinite space with an unknown depth. Inside the sphere, Wobbling Light like a lump of jelly, and Environmental Light overlap. The Wobbling Light are sculptures shaped by the person's own body and cognition, appearing and existing only in each person's cognitive world. Each sphere cannot produce all the light by itself, a group of other spheres become the environment, and the environment produces a myriad of light within each sphere. The spheres become a part of the environment that creates the light of the other spheres.