太陽風の砂漠 Solar Wind Desert 2016/09/12 Installation
The Solar Wind Desert installation was constructed in an abandoned sand quarry on the outskirts of Tottori for the 2016 San-in Art Trail. The work spread across a flattened area of roughly four hundred square metres, where the artist suspended over sixty perforated metal panels at irregular heights on thin steel poles. Each panel was cut with a distinct aperture pattern derived from solar flare photographs taken during the 2015 March equinox. As wind moved across the quarry, the panels oscillated on swivel bearings, causing the projected light dots to drift and reform across the sand like a slow, mechanical migration.
Visitors entered the field from the quarry rim and walked a single winding path between the poles, following a north-south axis aligned with the midday sun. The artist described the project as "an attempt to make the invisible pressure of sunlight visible against the ground." The panels were fabricated from reclaimed aluminium sheeting, and the entire installation was dismantled after six weeks, leaving no permanent trace in the quarry.
弥勒行列 Maitreya Procession 2015/08/15 Stage
Maitreya Procession was presented during the 2015 Obon period as a mobile stage event through the streets of Kyoto's Sakyo ward. The work involved thirty masked performers carrying forked wooden staffs topped with handmade paper lanterns, each painted with simplified features of the Future BUDDA and Future SPHYNX works. The procession paused at seven predetermined intersections, where performers arranged the staffs into temporary archways while a single amplified tone, tuned to the resonant frequency of the nearby Kamo River embankment, was played for ninety seconds.
The costume silhouettes referenced the long-eared, rounded forms of the artist's earlier Future BUDDA, but were constructed from translucent mulberry paper stretched over wire frames that collapsed flat when not worn. At the final stop, the performers stacked the staffs into a conical pyre structure that remained standing until dawn, illuminated from within by the now-empty lantern frames fitted with simple candles. The work concluded without formal announcement, and the audience dispersed as the final tone decayed into the hum of the city.
金星通過のための暗室 Dark Chamber for the Transit of Venus 2012/06/06 Installation
The Dark Chamber for the Transit of Venus was built inside a decommissioned tobacco-drying barn in Nara prefecture for the 2012 transit. The artist sealed every aperture of the wooden structure with black cloth and installed a single pinhole lens in the south-facing wall, projecting the image of the sun onto a circular screen of rice paper stretched over a bamboo frame at the opposite end. The projected disc measured exactly one metre in diameter, and the transit of Venus appeared as a slow black dot crossing the luminous field over the course of the six-hour event.
Inside the chamber, the air temperature rose steadily through the afternoon, and the scent of dried tobacco leaves, still embedded in the timber, became gradually more pronounced. The artist provided no commentary during the event, only a printed timeline noting first contact, second contact, greatest transit, third contact, and fourth contact. Visitors recorded their observations in a cloth-bound ledger placed at the entrance, and many entries included drawings of the small black dot in various positions. The ledger remains in the artist's archive as an unedited record of the public response to a silent celestial event.
塔のための螺旋階段 Spiral Staircase for a Tower 2010/11/03 Sculpture
Spiral Staircase for a Tower is a free-standing sculptural work composed of seven stacked helical flights of recycled railway sleepers and cast-iron risers. The piece rises to a height of eight metres but leads nowhere: the final step terminates at a sheer vertical plane of rusted steel. The staircase was originally intended as the lower section of a proposed tower to be constructed at the site of the artist's Hill of Eclipse project, but the upper structure was never realised, leaving the staircase as an isolated monument to an unbuilt architecture.
The spiral is open to the sky, and the arrangement of the steps casts a changing shadow pattern across its own interior as the sun moves through the day. A shallow basin at the foot of the staircase collects rainwater, and the artist has cultivated a small colony of bioluminescent algae in the basin since 2012. On moonless nights in late summer, the algae emit a faint blue-green glow that traces the base of the structure. The sculpture is installed in the garden of the Okayama prefectural art reserve, where it has remained on permanent display since its completion.



