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Tomoko Konoike『Limestone』

Tomoko Konoike『Limestone』
Period
July 25 (Sat.) – September 6 (Sun.), 2020
Hours
12:00 - 18:30 Last Day until 17:00
Closed
Mondays, Tuesdays
Admission
Free
Venue
204: Gallery KIDO Press

The stone slab was hard and heavy. Even when I rubbed it with crayon, the crayon would jump off the surface with a clack. I could not play with it very well.

After a while, I tired of this and went outside, where I made pictures in the snow on a hill with my footprints, soaked in the sea and sang, kneaded mud, carved trees, and drew on the hides of animals. I played as much as I wanted with the earth in such ways. And when I became tired, I went back and again silently faced the hard and heavy slab of smoothly polished stone in the studio to the rear of the gallery. I am not sure why this was, but I think one of the factors may have been that the stone was harder than any material I had previously worked with.

Some time later, what I was finally able to draw on the mass of limestone was the figure of a tornado. It looked like one scene from a storm that this stone might have once seen - exactly as if it had been clipped out of a newspaper article.

Everyone knows about the tremendous destructive power of tornadoes. In essence, they constantly suck air in and then blow it out. The movement and shape produced by this flow bears a good resemblance to the way I play with the earth's artistic materials. An inverted conical spring within my body jumps and spins while causing friction with the external air. To suck in more and more, I have to go out more and more. Day after day.
- Tomoko Konoike

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