Shifting my gaze
Shifting my gaze from the heavens to the Earth, I feel the weight of time written in the seemingly random structure of the soil and mineral layers beneath it. Many times I have driven out to read the movements of the earth’s crust from such exposed layer and used the impressions that flood in as my conceptual guidelines. In my studio, I illuminate the samples that I have brought back with me so that light reflrects off them to fill the room with the stories that they have to tell. I back in their rays as they speak to me.
text by tetsuya machida