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< Private Garden > 1999 Granite Sculpture(2):185*350*290cm, 300*175*130cm |
First of all, I wanted to make the very surroundings of the site itself where the stones are to be placed, as my work.
To make the two masses of stone I depended mainly on a means of haphazardly "cracking the rock to make forms." When I insert an arrow (that acts like a wedge) into a hole made in the granite and hit it with a hammer, I myself have almost no idea as to what kind of forms will result from the action.
Visiting this place, which is just about at the entrance to a deep forest, and standing in front of the stones, some people may, from curiosity, try to find vestiges of my thinking and begin wondering what the artist really intended to produce, as they look at the stones' rugged surface. When you stand before this strange work, which shows repeated struggles between the strength of nature and the volition to fight against it, you may perhaps come to understand nature itself vaguely visible beyond the stones.
As I experienced myself throughout the process of production, I wanted to have the two stones placed between men and incomprehensibly great nature play the role of an interpreting device that will take the viewers into the internal unknown.
To make the two masses of stone I depended mainly on a means of haphazardly "cracking the rock to make forms." When I insert an arrow (that acts like a wedge) into a hole made in the granite and hit it with a hammer, I myself have almost no idea as to what kind of forms will result from the action.
Visiting this place, which is just about at the entrance to a deep forest, and standing in front of the stones, some people may, from curiosity, try to find vestiges of my thinking and begin wondering what the artist really intended to produce, as they look at the stones' rugged surface. When you stand before this strange work, which shows repeated struggles between the strength of nature and the volition to fight against it, you may perhaps come to understand nature itself vaguely visible beyond the stones.
As I experienced myself throughout the process of production, I wanted to have the two stones placed between men and incomprehensibly great nature play the role of an interpreting device that will take the viewers into the internal unknown.


