Cognitive Sculpture

Countless solidified light crystals float in the air, rising, falling, and sometimes frozen in space. When people immerse themselves in the artwork, the crystals of solidified light that the people touch breaks, and the light from the crystals spreads throughout the space of the work.

When people touch the solidified light, they realize that the solidified part that they can see is a part of a continuous flow.

Life is a phenomenon that appears as a miraculously solidified, ephemeral crystal of light in a continuum of energy that has been flowing without interruption since a past whose beginning is unknown.

We do not perceive the world we see, we see the world we perceive.

A sphere made of accumulated rays of light.

The light radiates from the center in infinite fine rays, creating its spherical shape. The light source remains motionless, yet the countless lines emitting from it wriggle continuously.

The sphere has no surface boundary, and the perception of the boundary between the artwork and the body is ambiguous. When you try to touch the sphere, it reacts, but since it does not have a physical boundary, your hand goes into the sphere.

What is this sphere? Why do the rays of lines wriggle?

Our world is within us.

And if we perceive this sphere made of accumulated lines, the world we perceive will expand, and we may see the spheres of accumulated lines in our daily lives. As the world you perceive changes, the way you see the world goes on to change.

What are you looking at? Where is the focus? And does it exist?

Inside the sphere there is a mixture of real, physical light, a strong spherical light that looks like light has crystallized and which instantly breaks down, high up is a faint light like a wobbling lump of jelly, and countless lights are created by the surrounding environment, with alternating moving light and still light.

However, spheres of light and light jelly do not exist.

There is no glass or other material on the surface of the sphere of light; the sphere is made only of light. In the physical world, light does not solidify and light does not become a spherical mass. In other words, this sphere of light does not exist. The same is true for light jelly.

The spheres of light and light jelly do not exist in the physical world, but are Cognitive Sculptures that exist in the world of perception.

The materials are light, body, and perception. The shape is created by the dynamic body and perception of the person experiencing it, and it is a sculpture that appears and exists only in the person's own world of perception. When it exists in perception, it exists.

The light in each sphere cannot produce all the light by itself; other spheres act as an environment that creates countless lights within each sphere. Each sphere becomes part of the environment that generates the light of the other spheres. The phenomenon created by the environment brings the artwork into existence.

Dynamic bodies, perceptions, and environments open up new possibilities for existence that are different from material existence.

Rethinking perception and existence.

When a person stands still, the sphere closest to them shines brightly, and its light continues on to the next nearest sphere. It also intersects with light born from other people.

The seemingly random arrangement of spheres in the space is mathematically derived such that, starting from any sphere, a line continuously drawn to the nearest sphere results in a single, connected path of light that passes through every sphere exactly once, like a unicursal stroke.

The light from a sphere that responds to a person always connects to its nearest neighbor, passing through every sphere once as the light propagates to all spheres in the space.

This is a work that explores the beauty of continuity itself, found in the continuous light that is born from the presence of people.