Apple Kendama

• 2003
• 19.0 x 7 x 7cm
• material : Wood and String

Playing with a kendama makes use of earth’s gravity. That’s why
I made the red ball in the shape of an apple. Newton is said to have arrived
at Newton’s low of gravitation by starting with an apple. A perspective
that associates the moon and the apple, which are superficially quite
unlike each other, is liked to “comparing” the kendama to the world.

An apple that may fall at any time, and a person (me) who wants to capture
that apple with a stick when it falls. Kendama has its roots iin the risky play of
challenging the invisible relation between nature and yourself.