Inter-Reflection

• 2001
• Chair : 3.5 x 2 x 2.5cm / Equipment : 10 x 80 x 80cm
• material : Wood, Acrylic Plastic, Motor, Video Camera, Infrared Sensor and Projector

Giant chairs move from right to left of room without maiking a sound.
Actually it’s the image of miniature chairs placed on a disk on the floor
that is projected on the wall in real time. The space is set up so that the viewer
slowly becomes aware of this mechanism.

The idea for this work came from the resemblance of the chair shadows
to the shape of a musical note. The eighth, sixteenth, and thirty-second note
chair shadows play a soundless rhythm on the staff notation on the disk.
It slowly begins to revolve when someone comes near it and slowly comes
to a stop when people walk away.

There is a space of sound notated on the staff and a “sound” space
generated at the back of the actual space; I wanted to see what would happen
if I combined them. I imagined the sensation of the chairs revolving
and melthing into the space, or the instant when the space containing
the chairs bocomes music in a person’s consciousness.

A chair brings to mind someone sitting on it. I think the miniature chairs
with no one sitting on them have the power to pull people into the small space.
The simulataneous experience of a small world and a large world causes people
to unconsciously start wanting to make sure of the size of their body.