AMABIKI VILLAGE AND SCULPTURE

AMABIKI 2008 / FURUKAWA Jun

a memory of the path

Black granite, Lead
Installation size

That black, tilted house stood silently, unused. In a small space next to it, a rusty two-wheeled cart is buried in the long grass. If you ask, that used to be the route the horses took to reach the house. By placing my work there, I was pleased to think that I was writing a new memory onto that road.

AMABIKI 2006 / FURUKAWA Jun

Weighing The Earth (An accident on the surface of the earth)

Stone
Installation size

If you change your point of view for a moment, even though you haven't changed where you are, the things you had been looking at can suddenly look completely different, and you might feel as though you have suddenly arrived at a different place. You may feel a quiet rush of excitement. Perhaps the truth is found lying somewhere in a corner of a common scenery.

THE FIFTH AMABIKI VILLAGE AND SCULPTURE / FURUKAWA Jun

Weighing the Earth (USHIRONOSHYOUMEN)

Stone
80×100×60 cm
1030 kg
5P. Size and weight are about the largest stone.

"Stone as the object of speculation"
While I walked round and round a stone, I noticed that what I wanted to check was not just the inside and the surface of the stone, but also what was around it. I thought I wanted to look out from inside the stone at the changing seasons, and at the expressions of the scenery and the people.

THE FOURTH AMABIKI VILLAGE AND SCULPTURE / FURUKAWA Jun

Weighing the earth (and myself)

Black granite
100×330×20 cm
Carved own weight of each stones on face

These are weight-stones for measuring the weight of the Earth. I think it might serve as an opportunity to imagine this globe that I'm standing on. If I made many pieces like this, would they give a feeling of the weight of the Earth? Sometimes I try thinking about foolish things like that. Earth is drawn to this stone by gravity, which made me notice that all objects in everyday life are in the same kind of relationship.

But if I make too many, the weights themselves would become the world next…