ExperienceInteractiveOriginal
kotonoha
2018
00:01:39
When you blow words into a hole, the “words,” shaped from your voice, begin to walk on their own and freely move around the plaza. You can enjoy their many changing forms, such as flowers blooming from their heads when you say “thank you,” fangs and tails sprouting when you say “idiot,” or wings growing so they can fly when you say “rumor.”
This interactive work was created from the experience of sensing the speaker’s emotions and humanity in words, as if the words themselves were imbued with intention. Words may be remembered after returning home, passed on to others, or remain in one’s heart forever; they begin to walk on their own, sometimes gently accompanying us like flowers, sometimes baring their fangs like beasts, and sometimes spreading to many people like birds.
Drawing on such imaginations about words, as well as motifs inspired by the origins of terms such as koto no ha, koto no ha, koto no ha, kotoba, and kotodama, the work gives form to a world where these independently standing “words” live on their own.