The visible / invisible borders 可視 / 不可視な境界

What is the nature’s delicate, slight and invisible signal? - ancient people could potentially catched it at the borders between “Here” and “There”.

In the typical Japanese religious landscapes, it is often found that the nature materials such as stones are enshrined - as a sacred symbol - at the borders between the field of nature and human. These religious landscapes possibely indicates that the ancient Japanese people somehow could sense the existence of the invisible spiritual power in which the borders devide the two different fields.

This work consists of the two different materials - “Here” and “There”. The one - as “There”- generates the natural, delicate and slight sound by melting the ice cubes which the beholders cannnot listen, if they do not listen it carefuly. In the meanwhile, the directional speaker - as “Here”- is installed at the border between “Here” and “There” to play the digitalised sound, recording the sound of water dropping from “There”.

In this modern era, since the most of information is encoded, the phenomenon of the excessive symbolised information leads to blur borders between “Here” and “There”. I think that the human’s primitive sensitivity can be activated by posing to listen to the slight signals from “There” with strained ears, which would thus bring crucial perceptual experience to the modern people with slacked physicality.