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The past world



Memories of childhood.

Those are not only what one actually experienced.

They also include scencs imaged in one's heart on the places and matters.


In my childhood, I sometimes had a daydream as follows:

If a fish comes out of water, and becomes able to swim in the air...

If there are persons who move the clocks hands...

If birds flap wings from inside a book I am reading...


Of course, I would not really see them.

However, when I see various things around me, the scenes for the thing which I had been visionary in childhood are reminded.


And I suppose it now:

that the memory of persons who was there may dwell in things, places, and the spaces.

that the world of daydreams I had seen through the things and places only in my childhood maybe what their memories are exteriorized.


Therefore, I decided to produce the exteriorized world as a work based on the concept that ''The memories can be carved in the space.''


This work:

It is not only my memories, but also memories carved by somebody at the same time.

Huge amounts of memories are carved in the spaces in this world.

I would like to gaze at this world by my childhood's eyes again, and to listen to the memories carved in the spaces.




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