The China Syndrome: Getting A Hole On The Earth

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Getting a hole on the earth.
The power of imagination penetrates into the closed space.

In the spring several years ago, the starry sky I looked up at off-limits area left me a compelling expression.
No one lives there, yet I found this place is contiguous even it was seemingly isolated.

/Descending forever with gravity ― this is a new image of motion.
The China Syndrome,1979/

Earth Hole” is a video installation in which the screen showing “the scenery from the antipodes“ is embedded in the venue where natural environment is reproduced. The viewers will see the starlit heaven at day time and brightening blue sky in evening twilight as if they peer down the hole. This surrealistic and hopeful juxtaposition will give the audiences a mystic

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