Since 2011, the two architects have been creating various snow sculptures with friends in Naeba, Niigata. Since around 2012, they began using bicycles as a means of avoiding traffic congestion as well as for environmental surveys. In 2019, they started the project “Small Pond,” focusing on concave forms, using pruned branches from gardens and roadside trees to craft spoons and utensils with non-electric hand tools, peddling them on bicycles. They conduct workshops in various locations and run a small bookstore facing the street while wielding axes and applying lacquer in one corner. In 2022, Masuda Keisuke set up “Kijishi Minarai Goya” at Seidayama Campground during the 8th Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale. Throughout the festival period, he commuted every weekend with a folding bike and crossed mountain passes, staying to create spoons and conduct workshops on his artwork. Masuda Ryoko produced “Suginowaguma” and applied lacquer to “Mizufune.”