Year: 2018
Medium: ceramic, wood, lead, stone, thread, paper, acrylic board, cup, tape, pencil, wooden box, wooden board
Dimensions: 12 x 32.7 x 45.6 cm (4 3/4 x 12 7/8 x 18 in.), excluding pedestal
Acquired from Mitsukoshi Contemporary Gallery, 2022
Using a pedestal formed by stacking worn wooden boxes and boards, this work arranges soft lead sculptures, small ceramic objects, a string, a notepad, and a glass cup so that they are in succession with each other. As the subtitle “Board Game” suggests, the arrangement seems to be determined by some kind of rules or coincidence, which evokes a sense of gameplay. From this perspective, rather than appreciating what the completed display reflects, the interest should lie in discovering what sort of logical thinking is involved in the procedure (process) that governs its installation. The small, round ceramic piece placed in the gap between the two top panels is on the diagonal side of a notepad marked by liquid stains. Furthermore, the position of the notepad is determined by the small ceramic piece placed on the upper left. Resting atop the stained paper, there is a distorted potato-like sphere as if it were the cause of the stain. A pencil and a plastic piece are held perfectly in place on a tool-like object made of lead. In order to hold it down just right, a glass cup is placed on and a sphere with colorful spots has been put inside the cup. Then, the most impressive presence of this work is the string. A long string runs through a tubular lead rod, snaking here and there from the pebble as a starting point. It seems to visualize the positional relationships between pebbles and ceramics. By making something as a starting point, the process leading to the next move naturally becomes predictable. It indeed seems suggestive to describe this work as “Remembering Tomorrow”.
