About the artwork

The artists replaced stones with rice plants and turned a rice field into a karesansui garden (traditional Japanese landscape garden). A 4.5-tatami space made of glass floats in the middle of the garden and the visitor, standing on it, would be surrounded by rice fields as far as the eyes could see. The work itself was a small tatami space but, including the vast rice fields of Miyanaka village, it became an extensive, large-scale work. It allowed one to feel the scent and the sound of rice plants waving in the wind. The artist called the villagers the collaborators of this work, as they were the people who created these beautiful rice fields.