1. On the site of an old metal foundry
"Sky and ground/Actions and eyesight on the vertical axis."
Questions about memories of the site or its character are tossed out. The answers that emerge are launched overhead.




2. At the scrap yard
"Road and river/Actions and eyesight on the horizontal axis."
Actions alternately symbolizing the city's formation and destruction are carried out while metal slag is strewn around the site.





I had an intuition born of my experience walking through cities around the world. "This is like walking through a human brain." The thought patterns, including the unconscious, of all the people who ever lived there are reflected in every structure in every city in the world. This came as a fresh reminder that to walk in and know a city means to minutely observe the citizens themselves.
This observation, which I made in the city of Kawaguchi, and the experiences I shared there with visitors through performance would not end in that time and that place. They would be accumulated in our minds as unconscious thought and connect to other times and other places, though perhaps in unforeseeable ways.
Lastly, I should add that, there is no need to fear the unforeseen, for it is a hope for the future which varies along with our effort and will.

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