2018
oil-based clay, timber, styrofoam, etc
h.350 × w.490 × d.370 cm
“Choukoku-no-Mori Art-Live 2018”
The Hakone Open-Air Museum / Hakone, Kanagawa, JAPAN
* Bukichi Inoue 1930 - 1997 sculptor : He planned the Hakone Open-Air Museum in 1969.
holes in the front of the work allow a view into inside
each participant created small works by oil-based clay as a hypothesis for the mountains of Hakone, and these approximately 100 clay mountains were placed in the work
The mountains in Hakone have been the motif of various expressive media since ancient times.
This is probably largely due to the geographical and social factors of Hakone, such as a dangerous spot, an important point, and a checkpoint on the Tokaido.
The image of mountains in Hakone emerges as a pile by assembling and collaging countless expressions created by individual feeling scenes.
It seems like a structure of "cairn" in which all stones include various person’s feelings and are piled up innumerably and collapsed and deformed repeatedly.