Retroactive Things

2021

 Retroactive Things (JIZO)
2021/  Anonymous Statue (Jizo) of the Edo Period, Stone, Steel /600×250×h.200mm/
The Commission work for 3 Cho-me Cafe’ where local people gather in Tama-Plaza,Kanagawa.
Commission from the owner of 3 Cho-me Cafe’ was to build a Jizo with local volunteers to commemorate that this area has become the longest life area in Japan.
I got a small Jizo. I was attracted to it’s primitive presence. It’s probably from the Edo period. Based on this, I created a process that repeats the flow from on the way of carving to the original stone.
Human grow old as they are born as babies. Can’t it be said the completed Jizo is around the middle ages or old ages? The body can’t stop aging, but the mind may be able to rejuvenate.
The repeated Jizo, which goes back in time, also embodies such a delusion.
I named it ” Retroactive Jizo”