My Installation

When looking at my installation, I would like the viewer not to try to understand. Rather, as a landscape, for example, please just view or take a look. Haiku Moment is a translation of the moment when a haiku takes shape, and it is probably a moment that comes to you suddenly, striking your feelings. Likewise, my installation often reveals its story in front of my eyes at the last minute before the de-installation. It is difficult, however, to describe it by words.

Nakazora

In recent years, I have presented a series of work under the title of \"A Box of Ku.\" It is not that after the emergence of this title those works were produced, but that \"A Box of Ku\" came naturally to me afterwards, facing those photographs that were taken also very naturally. After almost seven years, however, since I started to use this title, my works have, through subtle changes, started to become something that does come after the title of \"A Box of Ku.\" To my wonder, it sometimes really happens that a name or title, which is originally derived from the object\'s atmosphere or characteristic, comes in the long run to identify the object itself. I don\'t dislike the idea, but do dislike it to bind me. Because of this (or simply because I am bored of this old title), I picked up the new one, \"Nakazora.\" The basic idea, coming from the same person, remains the same. Although there is no drastic change between me under \"A Box of Ku\" and under this new title \"Nakazora,\" I think I do have a slightly different feeling now. It is as if someone somehow starts feeling like wearing yellow clothes, after a while when he hugged gray ones. When the idea of makimono-style book was realized, the word of \"Nakazora\" protruded from somewhere and settled itself as the title of the book. This book, I believe, is just an entrance to the world of \"Nakazora.\" How this title and I will be collaborating in the coming future...it amazes me.
I would like \"Nakazora\" to be thought of not as a title with some definite meaning, but rather as a word to somehow describe my feelings at that time. I don\'t have a reason to explain why it has to be \"Nakazora,\" just as I didn\'t have a reason for \"A Box of Ku\" either.

I have a feeling that \"Nakazora\" represents a broader space than \"A Box of Ku.\" More vaguely, more ambiguously, and still more obscurely, but yet a distinctive scent is there floating. It would be a delight for me if this \"Nakazora\" turns to be such a thing as to leave the viewers, including myself, a drop of that floating scent.


Dictionary definition of Nakazora
The space between sky and earth, the place where birds, etc. fly. Empty air.. An internal hollow. Vague. Hollow. Around the center of the sky. Or, emptiness. A state when the feet do not touch the ground. Inattentiveness. The inability to decide between two things. Midway. The center of the sky (the zenith). A Buddhist term.
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