About the artwork

I participated in this performance, which, by pointing to the direction north, makes people realize once again that the Earth is a planet that rotates around an axis stretching from north to south. In this performance, while smoke emitted from a Cessna plane flying at a height of 500m is contrasted to a rainbow-colored tape, supported by people, extending for 300m from south to north. I called for the participation of people young to aged local residents, including mainly the students of Kawanishi Municipal Tachibana Primary School and their parents. Although a typhoon had jus passed through, 340 participants joined in on the day of the performance and made it a great success. The children wrote their dreams on the tape and placed them, into a time capsule for 20 years.Time / Rainbow is a vidual panorama of seasonal changes done by creating artwork in the same place five times a year to indicate the times of blessing and circle of the seasons, with the melting of snow from winter to spring and harvesting of rice after the summer. (A total of 20 works in two sets were created and exhibited in the main building of the Saieiji Temple and the Tachibana Rice Center)