Tokujin Yoshioka
RemembranceThe process of “remembering” is identified with memory of an infinite number of separate elements. The installation involved the use of 550,000 transparent straws which were densely accumulated. Both ends of these 60 centimeter long straws were pressed to shape them into clouds. The transparent elements overlapped one another creating a distinct ‘whiteness’, similar to the ‘airy sense’ of memory captured visually in the mind.
Tokujin Yoshioka, Second Nature exhibition
A number of fibers will envelop the entire space like clouds. Often I find myself looking up at the sky. And each time, strong sunlight, shape of clouds, and every element of the sky are burned into my memory. Although the installation, which is created by overlapping transparent fibers, is artificial, I have tried to create a space, which will be retained in one’s memory like natural phenomenon that they had experienced before. In collaboration with 100 of college students, we fixed each of countless fibers by hand.
Hundreds of pounds of feathers, rising, swirling and settling in a 50-feet installation. Tokujin Yoshioka’s “snow” aims to evoke the snowscapes of our memories.
