JUDGES, COMMENTS
Motoshi Chikamori
Representative Director of the PlaPlax
The components are a zoetrope, glass harp, and shadow pictures. They may not be the latest technologies, but this work gives us a glimpse of another possibility which has branched out in the process of technology evolution. I believe this work can now be called steampunk. Furthermore, it is based on the local, everyday context that was discovered by the artist himself. That craft and image are skillfully woven into a story.
At a glance, the situation where it appears that light strikes an ordinary tool that everyone has held, a glass cup, suggests that all around us is, actually, constantly full of small discoveries. I hope that this small awareness will become a branch that opens up new possibilities and continues to spread out.
Motoshi Chikamori
Representative Director of the PlaPlax
The components are a zoetrope, glass harp, and shadow pictures. They may not be the latest technologies, but this work gives us a glimpse of another possibility which has branched out in the process of technology evolution. I believe this work can now be called steampunk. Furthermore, it is based on the local, everyday context that was discovered by the artist himself. That craft and image are skillfully woven into a story.
At a glance, the situation where it appears that light strikes an ordinary tool that everyone has held, a glass cup, suggests that all around us is, actually, constantly full of small discoveries. I hope that this small awareness will become a branch that opens up new possibilities and continues to spread out.