MARUYAMA Tokio Website : 1988. comment

There are completely different worlds separated by a very fine line. For instance, when viewing reclaimed land I perceive two different forms of landscapes; the first being a desolate urban landscape, the other more primitive and naked. From these two symbolic landscapes I form images which emerge from boundaries. Within these boundary areas there seems to be a strange trick of the mind, in which a four-dimensional aspect comes into being; these I call "memory to the future" and "premonition to the past". My fieldwork and performance are to cut along these fine lines of separation from various angles.

Through such fieldwork and performance, I construct various environmental aspects of time and space. I produce for the viewer, a segment of the environment in which we live, and consequently, the viewer is exposed to the flow of information and matter presented by such a segment. As a result of confrontations or involvements, the viewer experiences a "warp" in which the fine line of distinction has almost disappeared. I find such dynamic experiences very interesting.