INISHIE NO KESSHO : Ancient Crystals, 2021

Clear glass is seawater in your palms.
Turquoise-blue glass is seawater in the shallow.
Lapis-blue glass is seawater in the deep.

For our ancestors, the sea of Nagasaki was once their only connection to the outer world. I embraced such notion from ancient times into salt crystals, and scattered them as the moonlight sparkling over the night sea.

Hilton Nagasaki Hotel, Nagasaki, JAPAN
Cast glass
13’-1” x 30’-9” x 3”