POLYGON
"Poligon" is a sculpture produced by creating models with different resolutions-high polygon and low polygon-from polygon data generated by a full-body 3D scan, then overlapping the two models and offsetting one just a little. Today, when everything around us is handled by information technology, being connected to the network is almost considered a witness of being alive. Although the body and information diverge, they complement each other's deficiencies, as if being a double system is their true figure.
Polygon-Double-Reedbuck 2010
Photo: Nobutada Omote
MANIFOLD
"Manifold" signifies having many different forms, or a structure that brings a number of pipes together. This is massive sculpture on the theme of information, matter, and energy. Spheres are arranged in space, with gravitational attraction pulling them into shape and transforming their surfaces so that they become smooth. In the face of a global context of increasingly engorged information systems, environmental issues threatening to lead to collapse, and energy-related problems, viewers are challenged to consider what we should feel, what we should do, and what in fact we can do.
＊Due to be cast in aluminum to produce a form 15m tall, 15m width, After trial assembly in Sapporo, Hokkaido in January 2012, the work will be installed in Cheonan, South Korea in April 2012.
Manifold_Vertical(detail) 2011
Photo: Seiji Toyonaga
THRONE
The decorations and sculptural forms appearing at concerts and in department store windows, and the computer-generated 3D video seen on the TV and in music videos are created to attract and please people. They are consumed in unlimited volume. An unoccupied "throne" depicts the volume and accumulation of this stimulus that appears and disappears in our capitalist world. The throne, symmetrical and standing vertically, seems divine and nostalgic, appearing like a relic from an ancient civilization.
＊This is a 3D digital sculpture created using a haptic device to manipulate virtual clay that exists only as voxel data in a computer.
Throne 2011
