AMABIKI VILLAGE AND SCULPTURE

AMABIKI 2011 / YOKOYAMA Aska

Toward a place with light

Wood, Marble flour, Natural light
280×280×280 (h)cm
42×240×400 (h)cm

Now that winter is heading into spring, the strength of the sun waxes day by day, heralding the approach of a new season.
Feeling the light of early spring with my entire body, I go walking straight ahead towards the hope that lies beyond it.
When the light penetrates into this wood, my work is completed by that moment of light.

AMABIKI 2008 / YOKOYAMA Aska

Long Way to Go

Wood and Others
92×260×260 (h)cm

The wind ruffles the grassland, and looking up shows a broad and distant sky.
As time stops, or sometimes runs backwards, I want to walk from here again, along this road.
I entrust my hopes to the single red pine still living on that distant mountain.

AMABIKI 2006 / YOKOYAMA Aska

Recurrence-Reincarnation

Withered tree, Dead tree, Beech seedling
1000×1000×700 (h)cm

A year ago, looking at a dead red pine that was clearly different from the leafless trees awaiting spring, "death" took possession of me. Before the stark reality of destruction of nature as a price we pay for civilization, there is nothing that can be done.
In order to return to our distant and forgotten origins, and to set out again to take a new first step, I must believe in a small hope of growing buds this spring.

THE FIFTH AMABIKI VILLAGE AND SCULPTURE / YOKOYAMA Aska

A Way Toward the Sacred Place

Cement
2600×45×30 cm

Going through Amabiki Village, one notices the large and small shrines all around. Entering a shrine, one is isolated from the hubbub of the everyday and enfolded in an extraordinary tranquility. That is a thousand-year memory that will be inscribed within me, a moment called into being across time and space. The human world and the realm of the gods are revealed in an arrow-straight road existing as a link between this bank and the other side.

THE FOURTH AMABIKI VILLAGE AND SCULPTURE / YOKOYAMA Aska

Skylight

Wood, Fluorescent paint, Natural light
300×300×480 cm

There are some moments in daily life when you re-recognize the presence of light that fills space. Light is noticed when it touches something, but I wanted to take the light that must exist between the source and the thing it falls on, and make it tangible. This is a device that gathers the natural light that pours down by day, and subtly emits light when darkness falls. It presents an experience of light.