smoke rings
日本庭院上空的烟圈
When I took a look at the site the large open space and beautiful Japanese garden made me want to create something not artificial but harmonizing with that nature. I looked up the beautiful autumn sky and that gave me an idea of emphasizing that very sky blue.
I created a machine which pops out smoke rings automatically from a box which is placed in the large garden - every 5 minutes. The smoke shapes into a perfect circle first and gets transformed immediately depending on the wind etc. When there is no wind, it goes straight up to the sky keeping its shape until it finally disappears. It’s very beautiful.
Viewing these recent works as a whole, I think they're interesting in that theyre somewhere between the material and non-material; they're made of material substances but they don't look like it. At present I'm at the stage of collecting materials that interest me and releasing experimental works evolved from them. In the near future, I'd like to share these intriguing phenomenon for real life and goods.
Designer: Takeshi Ishiguro
