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Bull of Cave painting (2020)

This work is designed so that the image of a bull appears at specific times, using sunlight as its source. Between two square panels positioned east and west, multiple strings intersect intricately, with certain intersections forming the outline of a bull. The work is installed facing south, allowing slit-like sunlight to pass through gaps in a wall and illuminate the structure on clear days. The bull emerges for only a few minutes around solar noon when the sun is at its zenith, but it remains invisible on cloudy or rainy days. Furthermore, the time when the bull appears shifts slightly each day. The light converges to form the bull’s outline, only to dissolve and disassemble once again, in a repeated cycle. This phenomenon cannot be intentionally controlled by viewers; the bull’s appearance is independent of human will or intervention, manifesting solely as a fragment of natural phenomena.

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Materials: Wood, rubber strings
Size: H22mm x W1500mm x D1500mm

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Takamatsu Art Museum

 © Akinori Goto  All Rights Reserved.

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