went to roppongi to catch Inception but stopped off early to catch Sensing Nature, the new exhibit at the Roppongi Hills Mori Art Museum.
first up was Yoshioka Tokujin's Snow, a giant flurry of down feathers. i swear my nose was itching. . . .
D and Cheech examine a piece of optical glass:
at 4.5 meters long, this is the world largest single piece of optical glass. looks like a see-through picnic table to me:
i can see you . . . .
a video installation that i didn't quite understand. three sides of a giant cube showed different videos. here are a couple of views from the corners:
Shinoda Taro's GINGA; bottles of water hanging from the ceiling dropping tiny drops of water into the still pool below:
D notices a pattern in the drops:
they were barely discernible in the pool:
i was confused at first when i walked into kuribayashi takashi's wald aus wald. it was like a giant piece of crunched up paper with holes in it hanging low off the ceiling:
turns out there's stuff above the paper!
look! its cheech and D!
always strange to see your own disembodied head floating in a sea of white.
or D's.
i call this one Giant Pile o' Dirt:
decorated yatai (street vendor carts) and a video installation:
Tromarama, a stop action like video of wood carvings . very cool:
i feel so cultured!
