The installation
is cooperation with Takahashi Atsuko san. She arranged the ikebana for the work.
As The Book of Tea explain: The first
flower arrangement created by “ those early Buddhist saints who gathered the
flowers strewn by the storm and, in their infinite solicitude for all living
things, placed them in vessels of water.” *
Above the flower arrangement, a five kilogram stone hangs on handmade paper rope. The braid created by Tamás Szvet, who learned the technique from the elderly of Mino city, and used locally produced handmade paper by Hidekazu Ishihara.
The work stands as a memorial. On
the 27th of September in 2014, the volcanic mountain Ontake
exploded, and buries several people whom were near bye. Stones were falling
from the sky, size as used in my installation. We would like to remember to
those whom lost whit this memorial sculptor.
* Kakuzō Okakura: The Book of Tea (New
York: Putnam's, 1906)
MINO AIR - Paper
Art Village Project 2014 / Mino City, Gifu Prefecture / JP
Photo: Fumiko Otsuka
Photo: Fumiko Otsuka