AMABIKI VILLAGE AND SCULPTURE

MABIKI 2011 / MATSUDA Bumpei

The walls in the six directions

Black granite
117×110×185 (h)cm

MABIKI 2008 / MATSUDA Bumpei

The full emptiness

Granite
I 80×132×172 (h)cm
II 58×145×215 (h)cm
III 79×86×127 (h)cm

The title is the distillation of what I was trying to express. "Full" and "Emptiness" are opposites, but at the same time, they can be said to be the same, depending on where I set my consciousness.
The position seen from without, and the position seen from within, are reflected as one and the same in a heart that has ceased to feel inside or outside.

AMABIKI 2006 / MATSUDA Bumpei

The void

White granite
90×120×170 (h)cm

"Hazama" commonly means a narrow space between one thing and another. In contrast to "hazama" as a spatial concept, cutting away a single piece of stone as far as possible can leave a "hazama" of thin mass that separates one space from another. If you think about the spatial "hazama" and the other that is solid, you notice that they are one and the same when taken to the extreme.

THE FIFTH AMABIKI VILLAGE AND SCULPTURE / MATSUDA Bumpei

Hyousou to Kyoukai

White granite
92×96×132 cm
3150 kg

THE FOURTH AMABIKI VILLAGE AND SCULPTURE / MATSUDA Bumpei

Shimerike no aru mono

White granite
350×350×20 cm
220×80×45 cm

I planted moss in the holes that were originally made to split the white marble. Moss uses the dew for nutrition to grow. The blocks of stone, laid flat, represent droplets of water from the dew. Things with tangible form can be seen, and those without form cannot, but the dew belongs to neither group, and I took that as my theme.

THE THIRD AMABIKI VILLAGE AND SCULPTURE / MATSUDA Bumpei

Binding

Black granite
110×120×180 cm
6000 kg

If the surface is the place on the edge between existence and non-existence, which distinguishes object from space, an untouched stone can be seen as comprising superimposed surfaces, and depending on how you look at it, the surface is the moment between existence and nothingness. When the stone is placed in a space, we can assume it exists when we look at its mass, but if we suppose that the stone is a space, we can imagine that the instantaneous space in which the stone and the outside touch is like the edge of space. Maybe it is not possible to talk about the space and objective reality determined by human knowledge as separated things.

THE SECOND AMABIKI VILLAGE AND SCULPTURE / MATSUDA Bumpei

Neutral

120×120×120 cm
5000 kg
White granite