Indigoblue
(2023.11)
This light and sound installation is an exploration of the connection between the artist and his hometown
Through a river, an abstraction of the river
an otherworldly door opens towards the faraway home
このインスタレーション作品は光と音を使って
作者と故郷の繋がりを求めます
一つの川、その川の概念を通して
白昼夢のように
遠く故郷への扉を開けられます
Audience sees the light that is reflected multiple times from its source, with a soft and smooth transition. The slight curvature on the surface also creates a subtle gradient, guiding the light fades away and darkness meets towards the center. In the dark, the gradient blends into the surroundings, transforms into a window, a door, opening a portal that transcends time and space, into the infinite distant void.
Audience hears the sound of a river. A composition of ambisonic field recordings comes from the summer of 2023 along 500 km of the river of the artist's hometown, bringing different environments from the lower to upper stream altogether. At its source, a waterfall is rumbling, night and day, weaving the land, homes, and all the people with the river.
Sound is reacting to light, suppressing its clear recordings into a deep and distorted echo from ago and afar. When the light dims, the sound of the river in its different forms, and the people living around it can be heard. The space is filled with the river by light and sound alternately.
The surface of this frame is dyed with indigo blue, where the wood grains gently pass through this deep and profound color, making this sculpture a window in the darkness, a monument under the spotlight.
Falling, howling
It is an anchor, deep down in the fluid of an endless void
where I remembered as home
is which shall never stay still